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...DICK CLARK, 75, veteran TV producer and ex-American Bandstand host; after suffering a mild stroke; in the Los Angeles area. He said he was hopeful that he would be able to emcee what has become a holiday staple: American TV's annual Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin...
...concert versions of the song, including on an album called ?Do the Twist With Ray Charles? - should have led the singer into more, much more of the same. It would, but later. Now he had bigger ambitions (as his label-mate, Bobby Darin, would in segueing from the rockin? ?Splish Splash? to the Sinatraesque ?Mack the Knife?). Charles issued his really-big-band LP, ?The Genius of Ray Charles? (with arrangements by Ralph Burns and the young Quincy Jones). The set teamed him with veterans of the Count Basie and Duke Ellington outfits, and he proved he could play with...
Democrats are getting in on the act. During their Boston convention, Senator Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas will be the host of a late-night concert party called Rockin' on the Dock of the Bay, with proceeds going to the National Childhood Cancer Foundation. According to a brochure for the event obtained by TIME, $100,000 donors will get 100 free tickets, backstage passes to meet the rock band, a "premium bar" and the chance to groove with Democratic Senators. Steve Patterson, Lincoln's campaign manager, insists his boss sees the party only as "an opportunity to raise substantial funds...
Dewey Finn, hard-rockin' guitarist, has the music in him. It's just that no one wants it to get out. His bandmates aren't crazy about his three-hour solos, nor is the audience. When Dewey throws himself into a mosh pit of revelers, no one catches him. Fired by the band, he holes up with a friend who is too meek to say no but who does suggest that Dewey help with the rent by selling one of his guitars. The artiste is aghast: "Would you ask Picasso to sell one of his guitars...
...Bottom line: Connecticut doesn?t have a recall provision but Rockin? Rowland?s tour could end after this term if the economy doesn?t improve...