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KEEP THE FAITH--that's been the standard Springsteen line. But the racing in the street, pretty darlings and rockin' and reelin' which have filled life's empty spaces in previous songs don't quite suffice in Nebraska. Springsteen addresses this familiar and reassuring theme in the album's final song, but the track, "Reason to Believe," is not so comfy. Here the narrator distances himself from his own chorus: "Struck me kinda funny, funny yea indeed, how at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe." On this album, Springsteen addresses more directly...
...area than in any other part of town, but there is no real center, no off-Vine Street, for instance, that could be compared with off-Broadway in Manhattan. Ron Sossi's Odyssey is in West Los Angeles, where it is currently selling out with Something's Rockin' in Denmark, a musical based on Hamlet. J.F. Smith's bare brick-walled Deja Vu, which looks like a Greenwich Village coffeehouse, is on the eastern frontiers of Hollywood Boulevard. The Studio Theater Playhouse, which is currently premiering a delightful musical version of Ray Bradbury's story...
...while her chauffeur-driven black Mercedes trails her. Wired for music, Ross glides along to her album, The Boss, of a couple of years ago. She notes: "It's great dance music." But what about New York's perilous potholes? She admits that sometimes she does more rockin' than rollin', but the lady seldom sings the black and blues. "Wizzing" around on wheels still has one big advantage: admiring fans can't get at her. Says Diana: "I move too fast...
...rock so far is a feeble effort at cultural cross-fertilization, like the Rockettes doing a saber dance. Back in 1958, the great New Orleans rocker Huey ("Piano") Smith wrote a clownish cold war ditty that included the lines, "Like I said before, you can be certain/ You have rockin' behind that old Iron Curtain." Huey might be cheered to know now that it is there for sure and maybe for good. Even though he might not recognize it. Then again, they might not know Huey either, not even in the park off Mayakovsky Square...
...Rockin' through summer...