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Guinness (right) and his willing accomplice Stanley HoUoway. The classic film
appears on "A Guinness Festival," Saturday, June 26, at 8 p.m. on the stations of
the Nebraska ETV Network.
By Deb Gray
Neil Sedaka, Siern Oat, MCA
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Sedka...h$'s est what yea eCwU es3 a
magnetic personality. This album makes '
arousal eves harder. We have heard s3
this before: the perennial choir-boy
voice, the same professionalism, the same
slkkness.
There's no dsnycj that Sedaka is good
at what he does writing tunes molded to
the All market. But this is largely
throw-away stuff, even by Sedaka's
standards. ' "
Most cf these songs fall into two
categories, and they're both annoyisg.
First, Sedaka cloys cs to death with his
goody-two-shoes sentiments. "Sinj (hit",
"Here We Are Falling in Love Again" and
Ton Gotta Make Your Own Sunshine"
are Carpenter fare at its most tutti-frutti.
Others, like "fil with a Heartache", try
to convince cs that Sedaka has been
shafted by the plasticity of "Cardboard
California" (another title from the album)
and all his years of deprivation before the
big time. When, actually, he wrote his
first hit song when he was not yet 23 and
has written hits not all recorded by him,
but hits nonetheless ever since.
"Good Times, Good Musk, Good
Friends" could have been a really good
gospel tune, if not marred by its strange
instrumentation adding Dixieland clar
inet and banjo to a gospel foundation..
"Steppin Out", in spite of some dumb
words, is a pretty good rocker. "Bad and
Beautiful" opens to strains reminiscent cf
"The Girl from Ipanema".
I hate to say this album is a total failure,
but with lines Eke Twinkle, twinkle
superstar", the only way from here is up.
The Itirs9 Greatest CcZ-loil
Heroes, RCA
This isn't the best tLhjj ccsicsSy, but
for those who are into camp, and for those
infatuated with Ray Davies' unique vision,
this will be entertaining at least through
the third listening.
This is another Kinks attempt at a
loosely constructed concept album, this
time about the "fantasy world of vCIans
and heroes" vignettes cf a star-studded
life.
Most of this stuff is more interesting
from a lyrical, not musical, standpoint.
There's much camp here, which, unless
you're really into it, gets old fast.
"Holiday" is a music hall number out of
the 20s. "Skin and Bone", a bee-bcp 43s
tune, talks about the dangers of
carbohydrates and mashed potatoes.
"Alcohol", which opens with Phantom of
the Opera org3n ineandenngs, breaks into
robust Dixieland.
"Muswell HHIhilly County" is about a
West Virginia hick who dreams of places
like Oklahoma, New Orleans and
Tennessee. In "Celluloid Heroes", Davies
moves to Hollywood Boulevard, where he
wishes he also could be immortalized in
concrete, like Greta Garbo and Marilyn
Monroe. "Celluloid Heroes never feel any
painCeKuIoid heroes never really die." he
says. x
Davies ends the album with "(A) Face in
the Crowd", where he envisons the day
when he wCl take that "final bow", when
his career wO end. Tve get to realize, Tm
just an ordinary man. I don't want to he
to myself anymore." he says.
This album is by no means destined for
immortality, but because of the incMve
Davies persona, it is interesting.
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