Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French rendering of rock 'n' roll sometimes sounds like a musical accompaniment to Jean-Paul Sartre's La Nausée. While U.S. rockers chant wide-eyed changes on adolescent love, requited and otherwise, their French counterparts in the cellars of Saint-Germain-des-Prés are inclined to peer through their existentialist glasses darkly. The most successful of the Parisian rock 'n' rollers is a 31-year-old self-styled gypsy who goes by the name of Mac-Kac (real name: René Reilles). A jazz drummer, Mac took to rocking after...
...growing alternately lighter and darker. A colleague saw the head of a grey-haired woman sticking out of the doorway of an all-male ward. A third saw smoke coming from the linoleum floor, and as he watched, it turned into a fine spray of water. Another saw a roll of luminous chicken wire on the floor, but it disappeared as he walked through it. Several heard voices from afar...
Rock with caveman Roll with caveman . . . Stalactite, stalagmite Hold your baby very tight Piltdown poppa sings this song Archaeologist done me wrong The British Museum's got my head Most unfortunate 'cause I ain't dead...
...other end of the scale, the average age of pop short-play customers has dropped steadily, is now computed to be around 13. That fact is enough to guarantee that along with the ballad there will always be the beat, whether it is rock 'n' roll or some such hybrid rockabilly or the new "rockahula"-Hawaiian rock 'n' roll. Beyond that, the industry is devoutly committed to the sentiments that Columbia's pop A & R (Artists and Repertory) Chief Mitch Miller once eloquently summarized as: "I love, you love, we all love...
After World War II, Ferdinando Innocefoti set out to put Italians on two wheels. From his plant near Milan, he began to roll two-passenger Lambretta motor scooters off the line for Italians looking for zippy but cheap (then $240, 100 miles per gallon) transportation. Now the world's No. 2 scooter producer (170,000 a year, behind Italy's Vespa), Ferdinando Innocenti has raised his sights to four wheels. Occasion: a deal to produce a Lambretta version of West Germany's four-passenger, four-wheel Goggomobil...