NOTES ON NOTES
By
CARL MYATT
Opening and Gala
How good are YOU at a OF
picking the winners?
the average Hongkong teenager able to pick out a hit record the first time he or the hears it? Inquiries have proved to the contrary, and the consensus of opinion is that a tune has to be given considerable air time before it begins to be appreciated.
Disappointment of hope
DON'T
be a dreamer,
Face reality. Don't dream of what
Can never be
Don't trust hope,
It is for fools,
It is for those
Who ignore life's rules.
*
Hope is dirty
*
It is unclean.
It is so cruel,
It is so mean.
Hope is unkind
It is selfish,
It makes you cling
To a broken wish.
*
As the leaves
-
Do fade away.
So will hope
Fade to dismay.
So crush hope
It brings sorrow,
It brings sadness
*
With every morrow.
*
霉
Don't build castles
In the air,
For they'll soon tumble
So beware!
Don't trust hope
It is for fools,
"It is for those
Who ignore life's rules. Cret card to Daya Gulab.
To illustrate this point, takeicians such as the late Clifford for instance the tune "Roman-Brown, and old Satchmo. 'tica". One of the first; disc joc-
Severinson respects and ad- keys to play the record was Commercial Radio's Nick Ken-mires the work of many of the "old timers" and his work has dall. He did so on his "Hi Fi
obriously been influenced by Club" programme, for his Juke Box Jury. The Jury's job was them. His first idol was Harry to award points for each tune. James. Then it was Dizzy Gil- Charlie Shavers, Billy The tufe that received the high- lespie,
Butterfield. Clark Terry and est average, was in the opinion
Brown in that order. of the Jury, destined for the hit parade and the big time.
Well, to cut a long story short, Severinson the jury gave "Romantica" the ing like thumbs down signal. The opinion time or another on this album. Take those two oldies, "You of one of the members was "it
Made Me
You" Love
and doesn't have a beat". What none of these youngsters knew then "Sleepy Lagoon" for instance. Doc sounds more like Harry was that "Romantica" had won the top prize at the San Remo James than Harry James. Both Festival last year. Today the are ballad type
It
appears impossible, but succeeds in sound- all these men at one
treatments of
ar-
tight and the Excellent music
tune is a hit even in Hongkong two great standards. The -but it had to be drilled in to rangements are the listeners before they started tempo steady.
for dancing. buying it.
ET another
VET series
Jones. It's
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at the Hoover theatres this weekend is the дет MGM production of "Go Naked In The World.” It stars Gina Lollobrigida, Ernest Borgnine and An- thony Francisca.
In conjunction with the screening of the motion picture, the 17-21 Club is running another in a series of competitions which have proved so popular with members.
Bouble passes to see "Go Naked In The World"
or
MGM pic- any other ture will be awarded to the first three all correct entries opened.
The
competition is
20
easy one. All we want you to do is to fill in the gaps in some of the well- known song tilles. An example: "Never would thus be "Never On Sunday."
P
The closing date for en- tries is Thursday, April 6. Now try some of these:
"The - Of My”.
"I will
"The
"Where Boys
"Frankfurt —"
You"
-
- Knife".
"Don't —”
Summer"
"In The Window"
"Your
Heart"
MY
LITTLE
PARAKEET
As bird
SI looked at the little
in its cage, thought of one most im- portant need of a bird's life-freedom.
If man reeds freedom, then animals and birds need it jùst as badly because they have just as much right to live as
man.
A bird's life can be dangerous, always on the lookout for bird hunters.
A bird's place is in the trees, so most people believe. How- ever, if it has the misfortune of being caught, it goes straight into a cage, which is like sentencing the poor little creature to life imprisonment. There is no doubt that the bird in a cage does not have to worry about food-yet there is nothing like the bitterness of being caged for the rest of its life.
My little bird will be caged for the rest of its life too, but I still give it a little freedom every day by allowing it to hop around the house.
It perches on my finger and walks up and down my arm now and then. It even eats out of my hand. I take special
delight in its pecking at the grains that are spread all over the table so that it may fancy itself in open fields pecking at grains on the grass,
Should I forget to let it out of its prison, it flaps its wings wildly and produces a loud noise with its tiny beak. But when the dear little creature is content, he chirps cheerily in the cage to the delight of everybody in the house. -Credit card to Hanifa Din, Hongkong.
"Stardust” pays tribute to Billy Butterfield; "Mack The Knife" is pointedly Armstrong- in the ish and is taken at a faster clip of excellent than usual, "Baubles, Bangles and Beads" is respectfully albums from the Studios dedicated to Jonah of Command Records. This like this throughout the disc. one is called "The Tempes-
Severinson doesn't imitate in tuoas Trumpet of Doc
the real sense of the word. His the style is flexible enough to em- Severinson," and as
There is much happy inter- title states, it features the brace the styles of most music-
these two types here and there play between work of Severinson and ians. A phrase
perhaps, but he is not complete- of reed instruments, but the his staff, emphasising once y James or
stereo- Armstrong at any arrangements are very again that the big band time during his performance. typed. Also the use of the bass sound is right back with Some of the other tunes you'll saxophone as a solo instrument hear are "After You've Gone", even in short passages, doesn't "When Its Sleepy Time Down enhance any of the tunes. The South", "Night In Tunisia", sound achieved is very nasal. "Tenderly"" "I can't Get Start- ed" and "The Angels Sing". On Command RS 33-819.
as.
Doc Severinson (my father was a dentist and I could have been one") is a complicated stylist, a man of many moods and facets. He can play with great lyricism one minute and then explode into a crisp, biting trampet attack the next in a
mzaner
which will revive memories of a host of fine mus-
ROCK HUDSON
-Credit Card to Roy Fey.
661
EEDS "RE
· There are some good mo- ments in this album. but on the whole it doesn't measure up to
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the standard of other Command CHIU SHUN-CHUN, productions. One had the im- pression it was out in a hurry so as to watch the market while, interest in this type of music was still "hot".
and Percus- sion" features, as the title suggests, a full reed ensemble consisting of eight of America's out "She's Funny standing woodwind and "Serenata"; "As Time Goes By" saxophone virtuosos-or so "S'posing" and others. the liner notes state.
For those interested, the tunes оп the album include: That Way":
On Command.
The Hit
By
INGER Bobby Darin,
his
ex-
is settling back into the limelight with latest Hit Parade "Lazy River." His revival of this Hoagy Carmichael oldie is novel and citing and looks like fol- lowing his previous suc- cess with revived tunes, such as "Mack The Knife," Clementine" and "Beyond The Sea."
Bobby
introduced was Hongkong cinemagoers. in the star-studded "Pepe," but has long reigned' elsewhere in the world as the natural successor to Frank Sinatra,
to
Some have even gone so far as to say that he outswings the old man
now, but few could claim that Bobby can yet handle a bedtime ballad with the easy confidence that has become the hallmark Frankic.
ANOTHER
of
record for Elvis Presley! Elvis has scored the elusive
Ted
1. Surrender
17,
student, 196 Sassoon- road, Hongkong. RAYMOND TSUI, 17, stu- dent, 272 Temple-street, 1st floor, Hongkong. MICHAEL LAM, 17, stu- dent, flat 320, 121 Java- road, Hongkong.
Parade
Thomas
2. The Story of My Love
3. Where the Boys Are 4. Calender Girl
5. Tonight. My Love, Tonight
6. Perfidia
7. Calcutta
8. Wait Till Tomorrow 9. Somebody
10. Devil or Angel
British Hit Parade hat- trick, a feat unequalled by any other recording artist in the history of the Hit Parade.
His latest "Wooden Heart" has just moved into top spot in Britain, to assure for Elvis his third cuccessive beg: seller there,
An incredible follow-up to the outstanding popularity of "Are You Lonesome Tonight" and "It's Now Or Never," but proving once again that Hong. kong is well up with, and often ahead of Britain' in spotting the winners.
Paul Anka is
treading the well-trodden path from pop
to
Elvis Presley. Paul Anka.
Connie Francis.
Nell Sedaka. Paul Anka. The Ventures. Lawrence Welk. Eileen Rodgers. Johnny Nash, Bobby Vee.
singing acting with his latest move to film three pro- perties with his own inde- pendant company.
Needless to say he is to star in at least two of them, and there's little doubt that the soundtrack will feature some cf the distinctive Anka creations.
HITS HERE AND THERE DEPARTMENT
America: 1. Surrender by Elvis Presley. 2. Pony Time by Chubby Checker. 3. Don't Worry by Marty Robbins.
Britain: 1. Wooden Heart by Elvis Presley. 2. Are You Sure by The Allisona. 3. Walk Fight Back by The Everly Bros.