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SONGS FROM A COLONIAL TAVERN (Decca) have been chosen from more than 7,000 old ditties unearthed by Taylor Vrooman, who dresses up in knee breeches and sings them for visitors to Virginia's reconstructed colonial Williamsburg. Vrooman, and the cronies who sing catches with him, perform here with a formality and finish more suitable for a concert hall than a tavern, in spite of lyrics like "From good liquor ne'er shrink...
...Pass the MOST" is, as it certainly should be, the motto painted above the stairway that leads down from Broadway into Birdland. Out on the street, the club calls itself "the JAZZ Corner of the WORLD," and, in fact, Birdland has long been everything to modern jazz that Colonial Williamsburg is to the D.A.R.-the cradle, the shrine, the place where things are perfect. But now, regrettably, the sign must come down...
...VIRGINIA GAZETTE, which began life in Williamsburg in 1736. The Gazette stopped publication in 1833. But in 1939 it was revived by the late John D. Rockefeller Jr. as part of a $70 million restoration of colonial Williamsburg. Today's Virginia Gazette sells mostly to tourists and looks much as it did two centuries...
DISCOVERY (ABC, 12:30-1 p.m.). A typical Christmas 200 years ago in colonial Williamsburg...
SAGA OF WESTERN MAN (ABC 6:30-7:30 p.m.). "1776," the recreation, in films shot at Lexington, Concord, Boston, Philadelphia, Williamsburg, England and France, of the mood and the times...