Word: albums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Waltzing Matilda for visiting Americans. Discovered by Frank Sinatra and soon signed up by Columbia Records in New York, she has cut a series of briskly selling singles: Matilda, Long Ago Last Summer, Our Language of Love, I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry. Now, with her first album, titled Diana Trask, she is beginning to strike the trade as pretty fair dinkum...
Circulate (Neil Sedaka; RCA Victor). A first album by one of the more promising talents to emerge from the pop thickets in recent years. Singer Sedaka mercifully prefers his songs ungimmicked. and he gives a fine, fresh gloss to numbers such as All the Way, We Kiss in a Shadow, Everything Happens to Me. A songwriter as well as performer, Sedaka contributes a ballad with a better-than-average literacy count: I Found My World...
...world of Lerner and Loewe. As always happens when Previn sets his hand to it, the score emerges sounding as if it were written from the beginning to the measure of Previn's nervously elegant style. For those who prefer their scores straight, the Camelot Original Cast Album (Columbia) presents Julie Andrews, Richard Burton and a standard pit orchestra in the show's highly engaging tunes; one in particular, Follow Me, is heard here far more clearly than it ever is in the theater...
Unexpectedly, the $1500 total was within the next year doubled by gifts from Reed's family, and from various of his classmates. The committee suddenly had to face the fact of his own permanence. Album members responded unhesitatingly; officially constituting themselves as the Dana Reed Prize Committee, they even began to assess themselves small annual dues...
...accept entries from. There have been a lot of new ones recently, and we'd like to have them included--but we really can never be sure if they're going to be reasonably permanent publications." The committee's own reasonable permanency is, of course, another problem that the Album must eventually face. There is some talk of incorporation; but no one seems to have given much thought yet to the need to perpetuate in some way the administration of the prize itself. The former Album staffers accept age with as much equanimity as they accept the yearly onslaught...