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Perhaps a better introduction to Prine would be his 1973 album Sweet Revenge, from which four of the 12 songs on this set are culled. Short as a two-minute warning is "Grandpa Was a Carpenter," a song about having relatives whom you love very much but really can't deal with. Prine's grandpa takes him to church, lets him listen to the radio, and then the chorus goes...
Hostile Audience. Streisand appears as Esther (here surnamed Hoffman), an overnight rock sensation. This is a reckless casting choice. Streisand is a showboater, a sort of one-woman Hippodrome whose roots are in the brassiest tradition of the American musical theater. Hearing her light into a rock song is like listening to Al Jolson sing Leadbelly. In partial anticipation of this problem, Streisand, who gives herself a credit for "Musical Concepts," has laid on a score that is only supposed to give the impression of rock 'n' roll. Instead, it will probably put off her fans and cause...
...least Esther and John Norman get to put up an adobe house in the Arizona desert together before the sad end. They do it with the aid of a tractor and a cement mixer, in about half the screen time it takes Streisand to get through her everlasting final song. It must be said that, for all concerned, the song is harder work...
...From Bob Dylan's song Hurricane...
Died. Ned Washington, 75, lyricist of the Academy Award-winning When You Wish upon a Star and many other hit songs; of heart disease; in Beverly Hills, Calif. The only one of his family's nine children without musical training, Washington went to Hollywood in 1929 to write songs for the new talkies. He won two more Oscars: for writing the words to the theme of High Noon and for helping to write the words and music for the score of Pinocchio. Among his other memorable lyrics are those he wrote for The Nearness of You and Tommy Dorsey...