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...latest of these basically interpretive artists, and certainly one of the best, is Bonnie Raitt, who has just released her first album on Warner Brothers. Bonnie used to go to Radcliffe, but had the good luck and good sense to drop out. She spent the past two years working her way from playing bars and clubs to getting second billing at major concert dates. Despite the eclectic approach of her first record. Bonnie is primarily a blues musician: what she has learned abut the blues, both technically and spiritually, from her close association with such brilliant musicians as Buddy...
...album has a goodtime feeling throughout that makes it grow on the listener with repetition. It also clearly marks Bonnie Raitt as the best new signer to come out of the Boston area in a long time. Real nice lady...
...PROBLEM with this production of The Fantasticks is the lead. Lang des Jardins, who plays both the narrator and El Gallo, the cowboy-rapist who tries to steal away Louisa's heart, is bad. He has a wonderful John Raitt "MOOOAHHHH" voice, but he moves in an obscene, unctuous way across the stage...
Other 1966-67 marquee names that will ring a bell and, as the producers calculate, the cash registers: John Raitt in A Joyful Noise; Vivien Leigh in Love and Other Games; Melina Mercouri in Never on Sunday; and Menasha Skulnik and Molly Picon in Chu Chem, a cynically commercial concoction billed as "a Zen Buddhist-Hebrew musical...
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Polly Bergen, Diahann Carroll, John Raitt and others devote themselves to the music of George Gershwin...