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...Sedaka's Back, promises the album cover of Neil Sedaka, 36, the pop tunesmith who set penny loafers dancing with hits like Breaking Up Is Hard to Do. For now, however, Sedaka is simply back out of work. Hired as a show opener for a tour by Richard and Karen Carpenter, Sedaka lasted seven days at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas and then was abruptly fired. "I was asked to leave because of standing ovations," complained the singer-songwriter, whose big receptions by Vegas crowds made him a hard act for the Carpenters to follow. At least breaking...
...Neil Sedaka: Sedaka's Back (Rocket). As an early '60s teen-age idol of prom crowds in strapless formals and ducktail haircuts, Sedaka wrote more than 75 top ten hits. Then the Beatles squeezed out shooby-dooby, and Sedaka slipped into obscurity. In his first U.S. album in twelve years, he retains his cozy, cheerful style; yet his songs dig deeper. Laughter in the Rain is already a hit, and Solitaire and Standing on the Inside have high musical polish...
...week. Paul Newman was 50 years old. Looking hardly a day over 40, he breezed through celebrations that included a family lunch in Connecticut at which he was presented with a wicker wheelchair packed with presents. Then Wife Joanne Woodward, 44, gave a party for him in Manhattan. Neil Sedaka sang The Most Beautiful Man in the World and Them There Eyes. Paul camped it up too, declaring...
...pseudo-oldies freaks know about "Patches" and "Laurie." But Dickie Lee had another big hit, which he sang with a Neil Sedaka-type voice. There's a freshman in Thayer North who has the tune, and there's another person here who has a copy, too. What...
...Neil Sedaka The Crests...