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After a hapless ballad, "I Just Found Out," Gordon presents the two best tunes on the album. In "All By Myself," a stomper in the best rockabilly tradition, Gordon throttles his voice in syncopation to the insistent beat while "The Three R's" echo the refrain. "Black Slacks," a two- minute tribute to sartorial splendor, careens like Ben Hur's chariot. It's sort of like "Tutti Frutti." Gordon sings...

Author: By Bromide Kush, | Title: Rock and Roll Neanderthal | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

...Stomper--Jonathan Swift...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Weekly What Listings Calendar: March 15-March 21 (film listings on page four) | 3/15/1979 | See Source »

...which drollery parallels satire, has six girls of vacuous countenance with dummy life-sized replicas of themselves clinging to them on each arm. The 18-person line swings into a Radio City Rockettes routine that may, quite possibly, induce laughsphyxia. To match this showstopper, Tune has a show-stomper in which the entire Aggie football team unbenches its mighty legs in unison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Delicate Bawdry | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

...villain of Magruder's piece is Colson, whom he calls "an evil genius." Despite his reputation as a grandmother-stomper, Colson comes across as almost pathetically small-time. When not waging interoffice battles against then Communications Director Herbert Klein, Colson seems to have been preoccupied with setting up something called Silent Majority, Inc., a proposed conservative research institute to counter the influence of the liberal Brookings Institution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONALITY: Boy Scout Without a Compass | 6/3/1974 | See Source »

...with a lightening bow playing and singing traditional music in Forbes Plaza, you have heard half of the group Water. If the other half is half as good, their concert of bluegrass, spiritual music, and ballads with Linda Neustadt, Rob Joel, and Al Firth this weekend should be a stomper. Saturday, February 23, at St. Paul's School, 8 p.m., $2. Party for everyone afterwards...

Author: By Peter M. Shane, | Title: Rock and Folk | 2/21/1974 | See Source »

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