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...still simple music of the Southeast was blended with the more sophisticated instrumentation (steel guitar, drums, even horns) of the Far West. This wedding of styles produced, among others, Merle Travis, Webb Pierce and the late Hank Williams. The rise of rock 'n' roll (notably Elvis Presley, who began his career singing country-and-western in Memphis) eclipsed country in the late 1950s. But by the late 1960s rock, the child of rock 'n' roll, was embracing country sounds...
...McGoohan, and set to an overabundance of limpid rock music. Singer Richie Havens shows up as Othello, here portrayed as a back-country evangelist, and lets fly with a song every few minutes. lago is enacted by one Lance Le Gault, whose previous employment as a choreographer on Elvis Presley movies comes as no surprise. He leaps into the air a lot, and sometimes comes down...
...rock superstar turns up his nose at breast of pheasant or Maine lobster, Stewardesses Sandy Cronin and Candy Burton-wearing bodystockings -prepare his favorite dish. Bob Dylan gets his cherished vegetable casseroles, washed down by Chateau Mouton Rothschild '64. For Led Zeppelin, there is Thai food. Elvis Presley's manager, Colonel Tom Parker, demands branch water from an arcane spring in the Ozarks for his bourbon. The Allman Brothers get collard greens and Coors beer. For British groups, there is Irish ale and a stock of their favorite Dunhill and Rothman cigarettes...
When I was nine and saw Elvis Presley on TV, I knew that was where...
...stirred by Sinclair's encomium that he too made a recording of it, with America, the Beautiful as background music. Sales of the records zoomed in five weeks to a total of 2.9 million copies, placing "Americans" in a class with the fastest-selling hits of Elvis Presley and the Beatles. In addition, just before he died, Country Singer Tex Ritter recorded the editorial as well, with America behind him, and that version has sold 250,000 copies. For all three records, the royalties -which go to the American Red Cross -have come to more than $150,000 thus...