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...DROP OF ANOTHER HAT is a chatter-and-patter revue by two stage personalities, Michael Flanders and Donald Swann, who might have come through the looking glass. They lead their devotees through a wonderland of whimsy, where, among other things, a nearsighted armadillo falls in love with a tank...
...does seem a shame that the boys will only be able to listen to her voice. Still, the radio patter of Starlet Chris Noel, 24, who cut a pretty picture with Elvis Presley in Girl Happy, ought to be quite an improvement over the nightly propaganda noise that U.S. troops in South Viet Nam have been getting from the girl deejay they call Hanoi Hannah, the North Vietnamese version of Axis Sally or Tokyo Rose. To compete with Hannah, the U.S. Armed Forces Radio is having Chris tape a series of hour-long music and sweet-talk shows to broadcast...
From there we go on to all the traditional song-styles of the amateur review -- the sinister tango, the unintelligible patter song, the rock'n'roll parody. The melodies were just not striking enough to break out from their cliches and be heard. Tight, overly simple little tunes, accompanied by only a piano, drums, and a brief, aborted oboe (last year's show had the advantage of a charming flute and steady bass behind the songs), they were too thin to matter much. One song, "What Sort of Man," written by Sharon Stokes, started to move towards a little more...
When racial attitudes and economic interest conflict, "even the most committed stand-patter can suddenly come to see things in a new light," they wrote...
...they were done 30 years ago." They teach their singers how and where to walk (glide, but never too close to the tables lest someone see sweat or telltale wrinkles), give them mildly risque parodies of such standards as Let's Do It and breezy between-song patter (says Duddy: "Most singers should not be allowed to ad-lib hello...