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Divorced. Stan Kenton, 58, pop bandleader; by Jo Ann Kenton, 39, his third wife; on grounds of "irreconcilable differences"; after three years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles...
...were the idol of San Francisco's heavily Spanish Mission District. In early 1969, they were joined by Jose Areas (conga drums, trumpet, timbales), Mike Carrabello (conga drums) and Mike Shrieve (drums). From the beginning, the group has been managed by a music-struck local barber named Stan Marcum...
Explains Carrabello: "Stan sold his clothes for us. He went out and cut hair while we all stayed home and played music. He really pushed us into it." Two years ago, they achieved star billing at the fabled Fillmore West without ever having made a record. They played at Woodstock last summer; their performance in the subsequent documentary movie-with Shrieve on drums -is one of the longest and most arresting single acts presented. A year ago, Columbia Records released the first Santana album. So far it has sold 2,000,-000 copies and has earned the group...
Gasoline is another difficult product to sell. In Delia Femina's view, Mobil's "We want you to live" campaign is smarter than most because it says that the company really cares about its customers. Beer campaigns are tough. Delia Femina contends that Stan Freberg's "Ballantine's Complaint" campaign, a takeoff on Portnoy's Complaint, was based on the wrong premise. "How many beer drinkers can read?" Delia Femina asks. By his reckoning, Schaefer, a Brooklyn-based brewer, has the best advertising theme: "The one beer to have when you're having more...
...play whatever Herman's arrangers ask. Woody returns the favor by giving them a remarkable measure of freedom. The group's spontaneity-perhaps the strongest remaining link to Herman's jazz past-attests to that. So does the individual success of such former Herman sidemen as Stan Getz, Zoot Sims, Shorty Rogers, Pete Candoli and Neal Hefti. Says Drummer Jake Hanna. an ex-Herd man: "Woody goes along with the wav the band feels, instead of sticking strictly to the book. If a man's really blowin'. Woody doesn't stop him after eight...