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Back in the 1950s, when Clyde J. Key was a high school student in Fort Towson, Okla., most of the kids looked up to musicians like Elvis Presley, Fats Domino and Bill Haley. Not Clyde. His idol was Conductor Arturo Toscanini. In 1957, when Toscanini died at the age of 89, Clyde had a dream in which he came upon the old man's weeping, grief-stricken ghost in a desert...
...Sonny Till and the Orioles and Elvis Presley both sang a certain song. What was the title...
...decline until it-seemed that the original rock in roll, as we knew it and loved it. had disappeared forever but for a few moments of nostalgia on WRKO or on some one's record player. Then came the first signs that a revival was on its way-Elvis Presley had three hits in a single year. Paul Anka appeared on the charts at the end of 1969 with a tune about happiness. Rick Nelson grew his hair and made a hit out of "She Belongs to Me." and the Every Brothers started making it big on television shows. Dion...
HARVARD-BROWN: A biggie If Elvis Presley and Paul Anka made comebacks, maybe John Yovicsin and Harvard football can, too. But if not in Providence, when pray tell? One hopeful sign is that Fred Gajewski's finger is healed, and the Gorilla says he's ready to plug up some of those big holes again. Yovicsin said last Saturday to the press. "We're not a real good football team. I'm sure you fellows know that. "Well, today he and his boys go to Providence with reasonable hopes of bringing back an even record. Look, Sec Joe throw. Brown...
...return of Elvis at 34 is a characteristically careful piece of timing by the canny "Colonel" Tom Parker, his manager since the days when Presley was nothing but a sexy-looking young truck driver with a guitar. For the last 13 years Parker has kept his charge virtually invisible to live audiences-limiting him to records, movies, one TV special and no interviews. Now is the time, the Colonel senses, for the comeback bid. Teen-agers seem to be tiring of bloodless electronic experimentation and intellectualism, and may be ready to discover for themselves the simplistic, hard-driving Big Beat...