Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Miss Blakeslee is quite attractive, although she may not be versatile enough for this sort of show; but if she sings louder she will be all right. Gerry Dale is occasionally very funny, and Mr. Morey nearly manages to overcome the fact that he can't quite carry a tune. Mr. Paul, for some reason, became discouraged with the revue during the second act, and declined to show further animation or to sing...
Lute, Flute, Lyre, and Sackbut is a pleasant way to spend an evening, but it is also frustrating, because it could be so much better than it is. If Mr. Morey and Mr. Paul had tried to infuse all the scenes with songs as melodious as the title tune, and with lyrics as scintillating as those in the second number, they would have produced a fine piece of work. But by taking the easy way out, they have created only a big fat fluffball...
...artist, the possibilities are devastating. The combination, suggest Barbaud and Blanchard, could make the performer as well as the composer obsolete. "What we've done," they claim, "is simply carry the old discovery that music is an arithmetic process to its logical limit. Machines could replace every popular tune composer immediately and plenty of serious composers...
Global Greenhouse. While Eltanin's biologists ply their nets and trawls and her radiomen tune for whistlers, meteorologists studying the turbulent Antarctic atmosphere will launch weather balloons from a sheltering hangar on the ship's stern. Oceanographers will study the tossing sea water by measuring its temperature, salinity, and oxygen content at all depths ranging up from the bottom. They will chart ocean currents and plunge long tubular probes into the ocean floor. The cores of silt they bring up will give glimpses of Antarctic geologic history over millions of years...
...tuxedo-clad quartet did best were among the oldest in their repertoire Nobody sings Good Night, Irene like the Weavers, and they make it sound like a fresh song each time they perform it. Hays suggested the audience join in on the other set of words for the same tune--Roll On Columbia--but the idea was greeted with hisses by sports fans in the crowd. It was a pleasure to hear Wimoweh swung again in a musical fashion. The recent "popular" transcription of the South African song is pretty awful, and sounds even worse in comparison to the Weavers...