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NOTES ON NOTES
by CARL MYATT
THE KINGSTON TRIO FLY IN TODAY!
ARRIVING by air from Japan today are three
young men who together have formed one of the hottest singing combinations of this century. The airline's passenger list will probably have them down as Dave Guard, Nick Reynolds and Bob Shane, but they are better known to their almost fanatical public as the Kingston Trio.
with rave
The Trip was organised in Japan where their three-week 1956 by Dave Guard, a graduate tour was acclaimed of Stanford University in Palo notices. Alto, California, and his two friends from Menlo College, Reynolds and Shane.
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Guard and Shane were brought up in Hawail and it is thus not surprising to learn that their interest in music-particularly folk music was fostered in those beautiful Islands.
Sea shanty
Unlike most other modern singing groups, the music of the Kingston Trio finds appeal with people of all age groups and of all nationalities. This unique po- pularity probably stems from
the Trio's ability to generate warmth, sincerity, and excite- ment in all their songs. Dave Guard put it in a nutshell when he said "We want to make each song live".
Reynolds, a Californian, was taught a variety of folk songs The emergence of the Trio as by his father, a Navy captain. a top-line singing group started That's why the Trio's repertoire a new trend and a complete re- includes many a sea shanty. vival in folk music.
The Trio's first engagement was in May 1957 at
professional
The Trio in action—Will they be heard in Hongkong?
them to make an appearance Torme has a distinctive style orchestrations are beautiful and and over the air in aid of the Fat and an interpretation of a song Sarah's voice is as rich Choy drive. It would be a won- that is all his own. On romantic beguiling as ever.
ballads he caresses the ear with derful gesture indeed.
Here, then, is a disc to re- Nightclubs clamoured for
Among those who will be at subtle phrasing; but when song a Stanford campus hangout. They their services, and audiences the airport to greet the Trio calls for up-tempo treatment, vive memories.
get enough
On Mercury SR 60240. of and their entourage, will were heard by Frank Werber just couldn't
be he fairly explodes with rhythm. Mel handles such numbers as (now their personal manager) them. They also proved a boon Mr John B. Finney, EMI re- who arranged a try-out booking for Capitol records who
presentative in Hongkong, and "Too Close For Comfort", "On" for them at a club in San Fran- regard them as
Mr T. K. Whang, local agent for The Street Where You Live": and cisen called the Purple Onion.
Capitol Records.
"Hello, Young Lovers"; "Whatever Lola Wants" quite magnificently. And he gets tre- mendous support from the Mary
now
one of their hottest properties-if not their hottest.
They were an immediate suc- cess. Since then they have been The Kingston Trio will be in working up a storm in night- Hongkong for only one or two clubs from coast to coast, on tele- days. During this period it is vision and, more recently, in hoped to be able to persuade
Reel Corner
BAOREILLYAGAEMPORN
MAKE a tall girl with a fabulous figure, a beautiful
Akce, blonde hair, a sense of humour, a high .I.Q. and creative acting, dancing, singing, piano and painting talent, and you might wind up with a fair ap- proximation of Julie Newmar.
Julle Newmar's real name is Julie Newmeyer. She was born in Los Angeles, California.
Fife,
the
Julle has been a dancer all her
turnirg actress for first time in "The Marriage- Go-Round" on Broadway.
Ballet
She started studying ballet. at the age of four, has studied dancing with Ernest Belcher, with Buth St. Denis, with Mme, Njinska, with Carmelita Mar- ace, and has been soloist with Antorfo Triana's company.
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Although she made her non- professional bow at the age of in the title role of a school production of "Alice In Wonderland," her profes- sional stage bow was made in opera at the age of 15, when she was selected as prima bal- lerina for the Los Angeles Opera Company, dancing in "II Trovatore" and in **Tra- viata" during her senior year in high school
Long hours
Julie Newmar.
took her abroad for a year of travel
When Leslie Stevens was signed to a 20th Century-Fox contract as producer-writer, he promptly signed Julie to co- star with Susan Hayward and such a bright James Mason in the screen ver- student, despite the long sion of his first 20th Century- hours she spent in dancing and Fox-Daystar production, "The piano lessons arti practice, Marriage-Go-Round.”
Julie
that she graduated from John Marshall High School in Los
Angeles at the age of 151⁄2.
She says she has no
famous or infamous encestors that she
knows of, although her English
Since she was too young to ancestors, the Richardsons, went attend college, ber mother to America on the Mayflower,
SINGER'S
MEL
SINGER Paich Orchestra which is com-
TORME has been described as "a singer's singer," which in musical parlance means that fellow artists appreciate him even more than even the public.
ad- and
posed primarily of West Coast musicians.
On MGVS-6146,
THE APPEAL
OF SARAH
IN OUGH has been
written
ENO
Two of his staunchest mirers are Frank Sinatra Sammy Davis Jnr. Sinatra not Vaughan to only admires Mel, but his new style and particularly his phras- volume, so ing comes close to almost be- ludicrous ing imitative.
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So, as you can imagine, Mel
capabilities.
to
about Sarah
fill o
it
whole
AN
NOTICE
BOARD
TONY KWAN & JUSTIN LEUNG: Your addresses have been corrected.
will be MEET THE
explain her
She has cut an album for
Torme is a highly-gifted enter Mercury which should appeal to tainer. What never fails to all lovers of the older type of amaze me is why the Hongkong standard such as "Say It Isn't public hasn't discovered the So"; "I Should Care"; and "If artistry in Mel as yet.
You Are But A Dream."
If they want convincing that Unfortunately the men of Tin here is a talent capable of Pan Alley just don't write such standing shoulder to shoulder tunes any more.
This then is Sarah's salute to with the greats of the entertain- ment world, then all they have such men as Irving Berlin, to do is listen to Mel's latest Sammy Cahn, Harold Arlen and contribution оп the Verve Johnny Mercer. Such-tunes have label. Its called "Mel Torme stood the test of time,
Sarah does them justice. Swings Shubert Alley."
and
The
MEMBERS!
MICHAEL LO KA-WAH, 17, student, 5 Chung Shan-lane, Taipo Mark- et, New Territories.
MARY HUI, 18, student, 216 Des Voeux-road Central, ground floor, Hongkong.
恭賀新禧
Credit card to Roy Fay.
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