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...kids hung out, who the leaders were, what kinds of things the kids were doing. But to their dismay, the staff protested over the possible misuse of such records, and the idea had to be abandoned. "When I heard about that, I called up Kerry and told him ain't nobody filling out anything on my kids without me knowing about it," Saundra Graham says...
Died. Andy Razaf, 77, lyricist whose hits included Honeysuckle Rose, Ain't Misbehavin', Stompin' at the Savoy and Milkman's Matinee; in Los Angeles. The son of a Madagascan nobleman, Razaf (real name: Andrea Paul Razafkeriefo) was born in Washington, D.C., after his father had been killed and his mother had fled during a French invasion of Madagascar in 1895. He wrote more than 1,000 songs during the '20s and '30s and in 1972 was elected to the Songwriters Hall of Fame...
...resembling a skinny Burl Ives pulled out his guitar, and began to sing an antiwar version of "Down by the Riverside." The crowd of people encircling him joined in the chorus, "I ain't gonna to study war no more..." He then veered to the original version, "I'm gonna kiss every doggone girl, down by the riverside," and proceeded to kiss and be kissed by every doggone man, woman and child around him. Nearby, a middle-aged couple carried a sign with the words BREAD NOT BOMBS, and handed out free chunks of home-made rye bread...
...general mellowing in R 'n' B over the past few years. Pickett's being replaced by the slickness of your Al Greens. And that's too bad, because you can't always dance to the Rolling Stones, and ass-wriggling to Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes just ain't the same...
...comparison is somewhat distorted by a $10 million refund on Pan Ain's supersonic transport order that reduced Pan Am s reported loss last year...