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...polemic that does not preach. To begin with, it is careful to state that the black man is no black angel. The hero, played by Actor Dixon with a knowing mixture of shrewdness and spontaneity, is courageous but confused, decent but primitive. When he brags that he is "runnin' free," he really means he is running away from the Negro he is and secretly despises; when the white man bullies him, he hates it so much he turns right around and bullies his own wife. For their part, the Southern whites are not depicted as white devils. Some...
BENNY GOODMAN QUARTET: TOGETHER AGAIN (RCA Victor). A lot has happened both in and out of jazz since the salad days of Goodman, Gene Krupa, Lionel Hampton and Teddy Wilson. But here they are, sounding much the same 25 years later. Goodman fans will treasure new versions of Runnin' Wild, Somebody Loves Me, I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good. But something is missing-a sense of discovery. Perhaps the trouble is that the pieces sound light and facile, like the right thing said once too often...
...preacher: "White po-licel Listen now! I want you to hear me, white law-men! You better know, yes you better know that the white man's day is almost over! The days of Uncle Tom and Mr. Charlie, white po-lice, the days of lynchin' an' moanin' an' runnin' an' hidin', they near an' end. An' the end is so close, so close, Mr. Law, that Lawd, yes Lawd, I can see it. I can see the future. I can see the future rushin' at the present, an' lemme sing--lemme sing about the future: I'm singin' 'bout...
...Scam. His father, a Navy flyer, left home when Steve was a baby. "I loved my mother," says Steve, "but my stepfather was something else again. There were a few bad scenes, and you know, I was outa the hatch and runnin' the streets when I was 14." Steve's family sent him to Chino, a private school for problem boys, outside Los Angeles...
Small Sad Sam (Phil McLean; Versatile). That persistent folk hero of the pop charts, Big Bad John, is cut down to size ("four-foot-six in his stocking feet") and given the ride he so richly deserves. His alter ego, it seems, "slid into town one rainy night/ Runnin' like a dog away from a fight/ He had a pretty big mouth for a guy his size/ And everything he said was a pack of lies . . . Small Sam, chicken...