Word: albums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just after the show opened, the stock lost more than a fifth of its value. To begin with, the blurbs for Wonderful World are black with big names: Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom, Buddy Hackett, Terry-Thomas, Yvette Mimieux, Russ Tamblyn, half a dozen others. The show offers also an album of snapshots, each one approximately the size of Liechtenstein, that dramatically itemize South Germany. And it offers, inserted at intervals in the story, three full-length fairy tales (The Dancing Princess, The Cobbler and the Elves, The Singing Bone], of which the last is wacky enough to make...
Many a stereo bug could recognize the sounds immediately-and name the man who was making them. At 29, Arthur Lyman and his group of Hawaiian musicians are staples of the pop-record market. One album alone, titled Taboo, has sold close to 2,000,000 copies, and Lyman fans buy each new effort (Yellow Bird, Hawaiian Sunset, Taboo Vol. 2) with the enthusiasm of rare-stamp collectors. Back home in Hawaii, Lyman's mistily exotic mood music has been copied with varying success by a dozen groups. It draws tourists by the gross to the Shell...
...union cast in Manhattan's 300-seat Labor Stage Theater, and to the garment workers' astonishment, it ran for four years. Now, once again, it seems to be a surprise hit. Columbia has brought out a 25th anniversary recording of the show's tunes, and the album is selling briskly (20,000 in the first three weeks) from the garment district to the Catskills-and even beyond...
...staff of a resort hotel when the I.L.G.W.U. heard of his talent for grinding out entertainment for the guests. He agreed to write songs for the union's review, and the next four years he turned out four different versions of Pins and Needles. The Columbia album is "a compendium of the best" from each edition...
Much of Pins and Needles, however, is as timeless as good show music can be, and at its best Rome's 25-year-old sleeper is a match for any show album on the market. Certainly no album of the current season more tunelessly defines the Wallflower's Lament...