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...HITLER'S ARMY landed in Boston Harbor Friday night, it could hardly have been more devastating than the performance Patti Labelle, Nona Hendryx and Sarah Dash, otherwise knowns as "Labelle," dropped on downtown Boston's Orpheum Theater that evening. Voluminous plumes, vibrant booties and large doses of pure, rock-bottomed funk held the packed house spellbound for a solid two hours...
Three fine vocalists, the group descends from Patti Labelle and the Blubelles, the also-sang soul trio that followed in the wake of the Supremes during the mid-sixties. Since their return from Europe little more than a year ago, the group has developed a totally new act and a sound destined to sway the record charts for quite a while...
...costumes worn by the three women were awesome, bizarre to the extent that one wonders what manner of being could create such trappings. During the first half of the performance the three ladies appeared in outfits of all silver, ranging from Patti's futuristic gown to Nona's space-like body suit, seemingly painted over her shapely figure...
...President directed that income tax returns were not to be scrutinized except on his order-in writing. He decreed no more politics in the civil service. There was an amnesty program of sorts. Ford even found time to greet the one millionth visitor to the White House in 1974: Patti Albers, 9, who came with her seven-year-old sister Kelly...
...sounds, vaguely familiar, echo in the void: Patti Page and the Tennessee Waltz; Jo Stafford and Shrimp Boats; Rosemary Clooney and Come On-a My House. Elvis, Bobby Darin, Fabian with a slew of golden oldies. At the drive-ins, American Graffiti and The Lords of Flatbush re-create the oleaginous pompadours and switchblade rhetoric of the Shook-Up Epoch. In affluent circles there are Fabulous '50s parties: the debutantes rigged out in calf-length skirts and open-toed, high-heeled numbers, and their dates in narrow ties and pink shirts and trousers that bag at the ankle...