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Circulate (Neil Sedaka; RCA Victor). A first album by one of the more promising talents to emerge from the pop thickets in recent years. Singer Sedaka mercifully prefers his songs ungimmicked. and he gives a fine, fresh gloss to numbers such as All the Way, We Kiss in a Shadow, Everything Happens to Me. A songwriter as well as performer, Sedaka contributes a ballad with a better-than-average literacy count: I Found My World...
Annual Dew. An RCA man estimated that his firm spends up to $300,000 a year on various methods of forming friendships with disk jockeys, gave an example of the effectiveness of such promotion: when a 19-year-old named Neil Sedaka cut The Diary, RCA spent $50,000 on "the full treatment," and four weeks later the D.J.s pushed the disk into...
...moved Columbia's Mitch Miller to frenzies of promotional enthusiasm with two more of her darkling juvenile fancies-Headlights and Stop Laughing at Me ("I will always have that memor-ee"). Most promising of the fledgling singer-composers is a 19-year-old Juilliard piano student named Neil Sedaka, who scored a hit with his recording (for RCA Victor) of a loosely rocking ditty called The Diary ("When it's late at night/ What is the name you write/ In your...
Once chosen by a jury including Pianist Artur Rubinstein to play on a radio teenage talent program (Prokofiev. Debussy), Brooklyn-born Neil Sedaka explains his turn from serious music in a flack-flavored burst of prose: "The kids who used to throw rocks at me now roll with me." Sedaka's lyrics, like those of his contemporaries, have the air of frenzied discontent that hooks the teen trade. "Today," says one record executive, "you gotta have Weltschmerz with the beat...