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...POINTER SISTERS, MARTIN MULL. When Bette Midler scored with a remake of the Andrews Sisters' "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B," I knew things were getting bad. When I first heard the Pointer Sisters, I could tell they were getting worse. Their harmonizing and shimmying is okay. But the music is insufferable, all the more so because you're supposed to take it seriously...
...really had nothing to bitch about. I'd missed most of the game, sitting in my living room, beer and cigars, the Pointer Sisters rolling out of the stereo, and my nth game of solitaire in full swing. I'd spent my Sunday dilettanting my way around the dial. By 6:30 I'd seen two quarters of football and six innings of baseball on Channel 4, as well as four of Harold Jackson's TD's on Channel...
...nostalgically costumed dancing audience looked like leftovers from that famous last tango in Paris. But the scene was Manhattan's huge, tacky Roseland Ballroom, and the crowd was bebopping to '30s songs like Minnie the Moocher. The occasion: The Pointer Sisters' highly hooplaed New York debut, hard on the spike heels of their hit album, simply titled The Pointer Sisters. "We're not rhythm and blues or jazz. We're a new category−variety," declared Ruth, the oldest of the four daughters of an Oakland preacher. The quartet mixed jive talk with Lambert, Hendricks...
Note bennie: Tom Rush is down from New Hampshire's hills for his thrice annually concert and rave-up, this time with a new band. He's still singing other people's songs though. Go see him, he needs the work. If you saw and loved the Pointer Sisters, you may want to know that the Coop is sold out of their album...
...Pointer Sisters. Another strict Church upbringing, maybe even Baptist. Four girls whose minister father rarely let them out of the house Saturday nights. So they sang. in Church, and conspired, which led them to the traditional backup jobs, with Taj Mahal among others. (Their harmony on his "Texas Woman Blues" is like to drive you wild.) They look like standard Harlem hookers, run through a time warp to about 1943, garish lipstick, thrift shop dresses, hats. They also sing. Ernie Santosuosso said in the Globe last week that he was playing their album incessantly, all this is on one album...