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Another forgotten album in much the same style is Wayne Talbert's Houston Nickel Kicks (Mercury). Before cutting this record, Talbert, who looks like a fat, freaky ex-Marine, played piano for Mother Earth and the Sir Douglas Quintet, worked with Dr. John the Night Tripper, did the arrangements for Jimmy Cotton's best album ( Cut You Loose ), made two mediocre solo albums, and wrote a song entitled "Schizophrenic Susan Minnick," all of which should entitle him to some small fame, surely. This, his latest album, was a blatant attempt to get Talbert a hit single, which attempt, unfortunately, failed...
...Benson hits, "Lover's Holiday," "Soulshake," and "Pickin Wild Mountain Berries." Meaux kept almost all the cuts simple, melodic, and less than three minutes long. The best of them are the amazingly pompous and melodramatic "I Can't Take Another Heartache" and "Put It On Me." Talbert pulls off singing such ludicrous songs only on the strength of his fantastic voice, which falls just a little short of Screaming Jay Hawkins...
...Washauer, once he was consistently able to return Ephman Pike Talbert's service, outplayed him for the remainder of the match at first singles, and took the last two sets...
Things went just as well in the doubles. Washauer and Nielsen picked apart Johnson and Griffin at number one, 6-2, 6-3; Fish and Cavanagh breezed past Talbert and Warner, 6-1, 6-4, at two; and Brock and sophomore Rick Devereux upended Corkran and Bill Lukingbeal at three, 6-4, 6-4, to complete Harvard's second shutout of the season...
Last Spring. Corkran was the only Williams singles performer to force a Harvard player to play a third set, as he lost to Steve Devereux, 6-2, 1-6, 2-6. Talbert and Johnson, who made it past two rounds at the New Englands last year in the doubles competition, lost to Washauer and Nielsen at Cambridge, 5-7, 6-2, 3-6, and could make a three-setter out of today's match as well...