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...human acquaintances, nobody thought much of them at the time, and so the melodies had been lost to many a generation of Music grad students. When Allen Ginsberg heard Blake's poems, Blake was singing them with what Ginsberg assumed to be the same melodies he had sung them with two hundred years before. So Ginsberg sung to himself the songs he had heard Blake singing, and as the years wore on, Ginsberg "imagined," as he calls it, the melodies to the rest of Blake's songs. Ginsberg, however, did not tell his parents about all of this...
...least two-thirds of all the Beatles' songs, and probably about half of Dylan's. We are flooded with pop music pouring out from our radios and stereos, and gladly immerse ourselves in it. Now, thanks to Ginsberg, we can bathe in the light of Blake's poetry as sung by Ginsberg and his friend Peter Orlovsky, and accompanied on harpsichord, guitar, laughter, and other instruments. The range of musical styles is amazing-from the madrigal-like version of "The Blossom" to the country and western sound of "The Garden of Love." Buy the record, listen to it half...
Rubber Duckie is, of course, one of the more memorable moments from noncommercial TV's Sesame Street. Taken from Columbia's "original cast" LP, the song is sung by a puppet named Ernie who, it will be recalled, sounds like Bullwinkle J. Moose and looks-from the neck up-like a flattened casaba melon. After more than a month of heavy sales promotion, the song has already sold 700,000 copies, and has a firm web-hold on Top 40 radio audiences from coast to coast. In Detroit, for example, WXYZ's Dick Purtan plays it regularly...
...host to a unity conference of all Indochinese Communists, and pledged Chinese support until the war is won. Soviet-Japanese collaboration in the development of Siberia gave Chou a chance to play on North Korean fears of revitalized and expanding Japan. As a result, North Korea Strongman Kim Il Sung has recognized Sihanouk's regime and promised...
...black community. Everywhere liberals and radicals are being energized to a higher revolutionary level by the Jefferson Airplane's Volunteers album: among the lyrics on the first cut "We Can Be Together" are: "We are all outlaws in the eyes of America... Tear down the falls, motherfucker" sung with the power of a black Southern Baptist revival choir...