Word: walkins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CHET BAKER (Colpix), freshly returned from a dope cure in Europe, makes his first recording in five years and shows that he is coolly sure of himself and very jaunty (in Walkin'). He can also be as lyrical as anyone in jazz today. He says a lot in little, can sing like a flugelhorn (Whatever Possess'd Me) and make a flugelhorn sing (Soultrane...
...bitterness about all this, but not enough to affect his advocacy of the civil rights bill. Explaining his support of that measure, Dirksen says: "I have looked at all the people who came into this office to see me?lawyers, contractors, businessmen, ministers, rabbis, priests. It was a constant walkin. And I thought: something must be done. Civil rights can't and won't be put off. Do we duck it or come to grips with it? Suppose we don't do something? What will be around the corner in the way of national tranquillity...
...Marinated by radioactive waste, maybe. And there's more where he came from. Crazy? Let's dance. Yeah, yeah, yeah. When a trio known as the Del-Aires isn't pushing that Big Beat, the big beasts claim several dozen victims. "Sounds like some body big walkin' in the mud," says one terrified chick. Some 20 others come to grief at a slumber party when they leave the front door ajar, expecting the boys from the nearby frat house to stage a raid. Horror's best song: You Are Not a Summer Love...