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Honkers & Screamers (vol. 6) is perhaps the most definitive Rock & Roll album in the series. This instrumental LP of very early (mostly around 1948) sax-led rock features Paul Williams (not the short blond mutant), Hal Singer, Big Jay McNeely (the main argument for this set) and other important sax screamers. McNeely's ferocious sax attacks coupled with some of Rock & Roll's earliest arrangements are powerful statements indeed. In a sense, this record hints at a very primative form of jazz rock: highly improvised yet controlled-by-the-arrangement sax playing is set against Jazz's traditional "walking bass...
...Hal McRaeled off the third with a sharp single. George Brett fanned, and Willie Mays Aikens hit a two-run shot to boost the Royals' lead to four runs...
...Qataris). The country has been found to have vast natural gas reserves, though at current prices development is considered uneconomical. Still, the sheikdom has taken steps to diversify by developing petrochemical, shipping and steel industries. "We do not want to be a short-range country," says Saeed Mis'hal, a Palestinian who heads the Industrial Development Training Center...
...looked like a rehearsal for Celebrity Allstars. Rarely have so many famous TV and movie names come together in one spot: Carroll O'Connor, Erik Estrada, Ed Asner, Henry Winkler, Cheryl Ladd, John Forsythe, Telly Savalas, Alan Alda, Hal Linden, Walter Matthau. But the actors who gathered last week in front of the 20th Century-Fox studios on Pico Boulevard were not playing roles. They were marching up and down Pico as part of a strike that has stopped production of most new TV shows and feature films...
...pipe down. I mean, just because he is the Bears' team doctor, it doesn't give him a right to go around yelling at the top of his lungs so no one else can hear what's going on. But, then, you know what they say--poor Uncle Hal is losing his hearing...