Word: albums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ALBUM OF MODERN POETRY (3 LPs: Gryphon). Anthologist Oscar Williams has selected 76 short works by 45 British and American poets, a revised and reengineered version of their original readings for the Library of Congress. The album's theme, Williams explains, is suffering and social involvement-"the passion of modern poetry"-rather than personal love. The selection is personal, sometimes questionable, but stellar nonetheless. It includes T. S. Eliot, Robert Lowell, W. H. Auden, Conrad Aiken, Robert Graves and Archibald MacLeish, plus many others whose voices will not be heard again, notably William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Theodore Roethke...
...COULD HAVE DANCED ALL NIGHT (Decca) is an album by Pianist Peter Duchin, Eddy's son, and his smoothly swinging band, which was launched two years ago at Manhattan's St. Regis, and has since played the frug for Luci Johnson in the White House. He plays pieces like Days of Wine and Roses and The Party's Over on the hesitating side, and sheathes Mack the Knife in satin...
...Nelly Nelly). More important, she exhibited a fine facility for dramatic phrasing and a rich, bell-clear alto voice stronger than Joan Baez' and in some ways more interesting. Her ecstatic audience was not surprised, for Judy Collins only proved in Newport last week what her legions of album-buying fans have known for some time -that she is a mere maid of constant sorrow no longer but a major contender for the feminine folk-music crown, second only to Baez among today's flock of urban folk stylists and perhaps first to have lived the songs before...
...year ago, when the easy charm of bossa nova had been drowned in a din of bongo drums, maracas and raucous studio bands. Getz met with Singer-Guitarist Joāo Gilberto, Brazil's "pope of the bossa nova," and decided to cut one "true" bossa nova album. Gilberto's wife Astrud, who had never sung outside the kitchen before, was enlisted as an afterthought to sing the English lyrics to The Girl from Ipanema that Joāo sang in Portuguese. This spring, when it was felt that the odor of the butchered bossa had cleared...
SINGERS The Greatest Pretender "File Under: Wilson, Female Vocal" advises the fine print on Nancy Wilson's newest album, Today, Tomorrow, Forever. A timely cross reference might be added: "See Fitzgerald, Ella, Heir Apparent...