KWSAN REVIEWS
RECORDS: Judy Collins
By WILL HARDESTY
Judy Collins, the queen of folk-rock, has put out a tremendous new album called WHO KNOWS WHERE THE TIME GOES.
Judy is, as usual, great. She was good back in the days when she was going to CU and playing clubs in Denver and Boulder on weekends. Since then, she has gotten better. Her musical backing on the album is also impeccable.
Best song on the album is "Someday Soon" a swinging C-W song of almost-thwarted-by-parents love for a rodeo rider from southern Colorado.
Also good is her version of Bob Dylan's "Poor Immigrant."
The only bad thing about the album is that it drags in spots. However, Elektra calls it her best album yet, and I think they are right.
CHILDREN OF THE SUN by the Sallyangie on Warner Brothers-Seven Arts would be a really good album if there were no singing on it. The instrumental music is superb, but 21-year-old Sally sings with that rapidly wavering voice style of Buffy Sainte-Marie and her 16-year-old brother Michael isn't a strong enough singer to be really good.
The lyrics, too. are boring and blah.
The duo prove themselves as fine guitarists throughout the album. It's too bad they had to go and sing and ruin it.
KICK OUT THE JAMS by the MC5 on Elektra is strange.
KICK OUT THE JAMS by the MC5 on Elektra is strange. Musically, it is heavy and hard-something like a Blue Cheer (whatever happened to Blue Cheer?) revival meeting.
Philosophically, it is revolutionary. The liner notes of the album advocate violent overthrow of the government "and tearing down everything that would keep people slaves." They are also for overlapping of personal worlds and a giant oneness. "There is no separation. Everything is everything." Yet, if words can be taken to mean what they seem to mean, their philosophy seems to be very separatist—the liner notes are written by the Minister of Information of the White Panthers.
Overall, the album comes out a little better than fair.
THE GREAT AMERICAN EAGLE TRAGEDY by Earth Opera on Elektra starts out pretty gently, with a little C-W touch. Then, about the fourth band on the first side, the album gets heavy—both in sound and in political comment.
The second side is something else. Earth Opera is the first group since Cream I have found to be just overpowering. Of course, this might be due to the fact that seven men help the four-man Earth Opera-which allows them to have just less than a full orchestra playing.
TV: The Brothers Smothered
Atlantic has two new volumes out in their HISTORY OF RHYTHM & BLUES. The new ones are VOLUME 7 THE SOUND OF SOUL 1965-66 and VOLUME 8 THE MEMPHIS SOUND 1967.
By MIKE SHEARER
To CBS, smut means using the right to dissent creatively while resisting censorship.
Smut varies.
To Sen. John O. Pastore, D.-R.I., smut means referring to the nastiest of American nasties -sex.
To NBC, smut means revealing the navel of Barbara Eden on "I Dream of Jeannie."
To me, smut means an ugly little broad on a daytime soap opera marrying the town doctor who has fathered three illegitimate children by various cast members before he met his wife, who has left her illeginate children with her step-mother, who discusses Alice's operation which remains touch-and-go for four years.
To me, smut means the dehumization of persons in such shows as "The Beverly Hillbills," "The Dating Game," "The Newlyweds," "The Doris Day Show," "Let's Make a Deal," "The Flying Nun" and on and on.
To me, smut means delivering 90% of the network viewing time to a single segment of the population.
Design seminar set for tomorrow
The KU School of Architecture and Urban Design announced yesterday it would hold an Interior Design Seminar and display from 1:30 to 6 p.m. tomorrow in the Kansas Union Big Eight Room.
In addition, an informal gathering will be held after the seminar with films, slides and informal discussion with members of the seminar panel.
To me, smut means omitting a truth.
Television is more than a wasteland. It is a near vacuum.
To me, smut means avoiding values.
Panel members include representatives from Herman Miller, Knoll, Stendig, Harvey Probber and Burke furniture manufacturers; interior space designers from Chicago, and George Hixon, KU associate professor of design, who heads the interior design department of the Duff and Repp Furniture Co.
Pastore's campaign to "clean up the filth" has cleaned CBS of "The Smothers Brothers." It has found a method to remove freckles and produce pimples. It has found the cure for health and the stimulant for sickness.
Hopefully, CBS can find something to replace "The Smothers Brothers." Perhaps this time they will be able to find something as good as "Bonanza," with which the Smothers Brothers had competed.
If the history of television holds true, the replacement will fill a void in a void.
These records have the proverbial cast of thousands—which reads like a Who's Who of soul—Sam and Dave, Arthur Conley, Aretha Franklin, Booker T. & the M.G.s, Otis Redding, Carla Thomas, Wilson Pickett, King Curtis, Perey Sledge, Joe Tex, Solomon Burke, Barbara Lewis, The Capitols and Eddie Floyd.
The songs presented are the songs the above-named cast made famous.
Apr. 10
1969 KANSAN 5
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