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...which opened at Billy Rose's Music Hall in New York City. It was too intense and driving for a public conditioned to syrupy hotel orchestras. But for all its kick-up-your- heels abandon, Goodman's group was as highly disciplined as Arturo Toscanini's NBC Symphony. The eight- and 16-bar call-and-response choruses, sung out lustily by the saxophones, trumpets and trombones, supported wild improvisational flights by Goodman, Trumpeter Harry James and Drummer Krupa. The big breakthrough came at the Palomar Ballroom in Los Angeles. ''I called out some of our big Fletcher Henderson arrangements,'' remembered...
...bassist, Tony James, calls designer violence. The group is about to make a major breakthrough: its first LP, Sigue Sigue Sputnik Flaunt It, will be released in July in Britain--complete with commercials. The record has the ambiguous distinction of being the first to hawk wares between the cuts. Eight to ten 20- to 30-second tracks on the EMI record will extol such salables as cellular mobile telephones and fashion and youth magazines. According to Sigue Sigue, each advertising track will cost roughly $1,500, and the promotion will also appear on the album sleeve. The point, says Bassist...
...Prosecutors dropped a second-degree murder charge against the Canadian-born defendant in exchange for her plea of no contest to a count of involuntary manslaughter and three counts of administering and furnishing narcotics to Belushi. Instead of a possible 25 years to life, she faces a maximum of eight years and eight months. Deputy District Attorney Elden Fox conceded that the accused ''honestly believes from a moral standpoint that she is not responsible for his death.'' Still, he will push for a three-year prison term. Said Fox: ''Cathy Smith is paying far less of a price...
CONVICTED. Carmine Persico, 52, reputed boss of New York City's Colombo crime organization; on charges of racketeering, extortion and bribery; after an eight-month trial; in New York City. Persico faces up to 20 years on each of two racketeering counts. Earlier in the week, 15 alleged associates pleaded guilty to various charges at another trial in New York City, a double play that led prosecutors to claim a major blow against the Mafia...
...Someone installed a ceramic black jockey on the lawn. One night last week a gang of young whites began launching bottle rockets toward the Armstrong house, but suddenly the fun went out of it. A 23-year-old friend of the Armstrongs' fired a shotgun at the whites, wounding eight, none seriously. Police charged the alleged gunman, Michael Spraggins, with felonious assault and released him on $5,000 bond. Marlene Armstrong insisted that her family had been endangered. Said she: ''Either we were going to die or those people were going to die.'' Observers recalled other recent incidents, including...