Word: rockingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Suffolk Country district judge yesterday threw out suits brought last week by a Boston Rock promoter, George Papadoupolos, who sought to stop the concerts, charging that their producers had not given him the credit he deserved...
...Quagmires. Not only that, but many of the new groups are reaching back into the past for their material. Cat Mother and the All Night News Boys' Good Old Rock 'n' Roll is on the charts. Creedence Clearwater Revival (TIME, June 27) has recut Screaming Jay Hawkins' I Put a Spell on You and Little Richard's Good Golly Miss Molly, and Bobby Vinton is redoing To Know Him Is to Love Him, Phil Specter's first hit, recorded originally in 1958 by the Teddy Bears...
...ding-dong?" or the 50-odd repetitions of sha-da-da-da-da in the song called Get a Job. Boston Disk Jockey Steve Seagull thinks that the new interest is a short-time summer thing that has something to do with this primitivism. According to Seagull, "Rock 'n' roll is perfect beach music-like it just says 'pizza stand, convertible and soft summer nights.' It's nice simple music and people sometimes like that. It talks about an age before Viet Nam, race problems, Nixon and our other hang...
...Primitivism. Others, however, see the trend as deeper and longer-lasting. Says Pete Johnson, former rock-music critic for the Los Angeles Times: "With Sgt. Pepper, records got really artsy-craftsy-more cerebral than gut. You had 15-minute rock symphonies and huge, long, pretentious albums that you had to listen to 20 times to understand. It got so you couldn't tell anything from this mill of sounds made by these esthetes of rock. Then there came a cry for primitivism, and you started hearing rock 'n' roll-a name that had been unfashionable-as opposed...
George Papadoupolos, a Boston rock producer, has filed suits for slander against the Harvard Corporation, which lent the stadium for the concerts; Edward S. Gruson, assistant to the President for Community Relations, who arranged the loan of the facility; and the Riverside Neighborhood Association and the National Center for Afro-American Artists, the two groups now co-sponsoring the concerts...