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This futuristic ballad sounds as though it were composed by a computer at the Rand Corp., but In the Year 2525 is the product of two country-pickin' guitarists from Lincoln, Neb., Denny Zager and Rick Evans, who a year ago were thinking about the future mostly in terms of the source of their next meal. Only last November, Zager, 25, and Evans, 26, were working as a duo, trying their best to please the regular customers in a Lincoln motel lounge. With a borrowed $500 they recorded 2525, which has a simple and schmaltzy tune and a chugging...
...Cotton Pickin...
...horn and put it behind the bandstand. Man, I was shakin' like this," he waved his hand in the air. "Pretty soon, Gilbey run back in the all with a shotgun, and I jumped head first out the window. Everybody scattered. Then he ments with that gun, pickin' 'em up started blowin' holes in the instru-and throwin' 'em on the ground. Slashed the drum heads with his knife. Man, he went good and crazy. Wrecked Bunk's cornet for good. Bunk never played no more until we made those records. Eveybody's instrument but mine was busted...
...Glen began to play a guitar at the age of four, when his father through a Sears, Roebuck catalog sent for one priced at $5. He drew on whatever music was at hand: the hymns he sang in the choir at the Church of Christ, homely folk tunes, country pickin' that he heard at the county fair, and records on the radio-especially Hank Williams and Frank Sinatra. By the age of 14, he was proficient enough to say goodbye to school and begin touring the Southwest, first with an uncle's band, later with his own outfit...
...Staten, the mother of 10, so old and bent she seemed a midget, explained: "I attended this meeting here when I was able. I sent my children to Marks High School (the white high school). The agent kept pickin' on me. Last Tuesday, a week ago, I got a letter said we're going to have to move because they need the house by the 15th. It didn't say it was because of school, but I know the agent, Mr. Webbs. He always wanted to know what kind of meeting this was. 'You know enough already...