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Kootch had been playing in a rock band called the King Bees. Now he was forming a new band, the Flying Machine. With James on guitar and doubling as composer-vocalist, Kootch also on guitar and Zachary Wiesner, son of M.I.T. Provost Jerome Wiesner, on bass, the group was soon able to earn something like $12 a night. Despite its low income, it was quite a good band. What it proved while it lasted was that Taylor had somehow evolved into an accomplished musician. Most of his songs?including Knocking 'Round the Zoo, Night Owl and Rainy Day Man, which...
...supergroup consisting of ex-Yard-bird Jimmy Page and three other young veterans of the British rock scene, Led Zeppelin was launched in 1968 in what Lead Vocalist Robert Plant calls a "smash-bang-wallop" fashion. After a week's tour of Scandinavia, the group knocked out its first ragged LP in 15 hours. The group's spontaneity and free-floating blues improvisations struck a responsive chord among the young, and the LP became a million-dollar seller...
...version that eventually became a hit, the lyric (rendered by an entirely different vocalist) was diffused into "Dance with me, Henry,/Let's dance while the music rolls...
Static Electricity. The firm found a replacement for Diana ("someone who could live in the clean and wholesome way these girls have lived") in Jean Terrell, a soulful but unknown lead vocalist. Then it invested $100,000 in Diana's solo act, $60,000 of which went for elaborate clothes and new arrangements. Without Diana, though, the Supremes sound more homogenized than ever, and audiences have to memorize their wigs to remember which is which...
...There he built a house and settled back to enjoy the good pure life. Now, Smith says, he is suffering mightily from "people pollution." The angry humorist insists that he has never seen "such a goddamned bunch of bigoted, pious, lying, cheating bastards in all my life." . . . The lovely vocalist was on her way to receive Harvard's Hasty Pudding Club Award as Woman of the Year when she was besieged by fans and autograph hunters. One young man had no paper, so he held forth the book he was carrying. The singer hesitated a moment, then signed, handing...