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Hollywood people do nothing in twos or even fours. Studios will be watching the returns on these movies closely because many more musicals are on the way. Hot Wax, the story of a '50s disc jockey, is already in production, as is FM, a film about a rock radio station, and Thank God It's Friday!, about a Los Angeles discotheque. Neil Diamond wants to do a remake of The Jazz Singer, and Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin will star in a musical version of Popeye. Annie, the Broadway hit, was just bought by Columbia Pictures...
Interestingly enough, the four cuts on side one, all of which have received considerable airplay on both the AM and FM dials, are the least innovative songs on the album. They fit neatly into the pattern that Joel has established in his past releases, but their success is still a tribute to the freshness and originality Joel brings to each of his new songs--even the ones that most resemble his familiar ballads...
...attracting much attention. Despite a long career as a prominent session man and several well-respected albums, the beginning of '76 found him virtually nowhere on the all-important scale of commercial success. Several of his songs--"Loan Me a Dime," for example, and "Dinah Flo" were FM classics, but FM airplay is a notoriously poor way to pay the rent. It was the old story--a critical acclaim and cult following which did not translate into anything tangible and preferably green. His gradual evolution from rock to a bland middle-of-the-road sound just wasn't making...
...Willie Nininger plays tonight at Passim. John Allan Cameron, a Canadian guitarist, fiddler and folksinger who does not now, nor has he ever, advertised Timex watches, does his thing at Passim November 8; you can also hear him in concert with Jean Redpath Saturday at 10 a.m. on WGBH-FM. Wednesday, November 9 through Saturday, November 13, Philo recording artists U. Utah Phillips and Rosalie Sorrels sing and tell stories. The Wednesday show starts...
After transmitter problems kept Harvard radio station WHRB off the air for almost two weeks, the station was able to resume broadcasting at 6 p.m. last Thursday, the station's FM chief said yesterday...