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Show Out of the Slush Pump By Ottum et al -hi.; week as we announced u'. O.o tj.j e:id c." la.;t week's ( ':;:r-i wj were to live started ciiti'iuc 0:1 Cia various and sur.Ory tli.-.c-joekey shows we ar.re blessed with (cr plagued, licpsndinj on the point of view.) twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. "What with trying to house-break house-break our new spaniel and standing in line to get our new license plates this week, however, how-ever, we had time to catch only one local show and that stank. In all fairness to everybody, let's just forget the whole thing for now and start in next week. So here was go: Starting next week we're going to review one show per week, then tell you all about it, whether it's worth listening list-ening to and at the same time we're going to talk man to man with the boy running the show. Though we do confess to a certain Spartan taste in some of I our likes and dislikes, we are human. For the most part, our objections to the average record show are universal. We like to be entertained. We respect good music, clever dialogue, and good timing. If we see these 'things on a show, we'll rate it high . . . Jazz or not. Here is what we have in mind. We intend to give each of these shows a fair appraisal, then rate it on our entertainment scale. 1. That a particular program does not have to play jazz to grab a good review in the S. I'. 2. That it sounds like it was planned a few minutes in advance ad-vance of Mike time. 3. We don't want the announcer an-nouncer to confuse jazz with bebop. be-bop. 4. We're tired hearing long, lousel y-handled commercials 1 while waiting for more music. In our candid opinion: a record program is staged primarily to entertain, tin e n to sell the sponsor's spon-sor's products. Apparently every sponsor today squirms every time to hear a three - minute record taking up his fifteen-minute fifteen-minute show. We're for shorter, more snappy snap-py commercials, less comment by the disc jockeys, subsequently subsequent-ly more music. However, we, can understand the desire to sell a product. Why don't sponsors demand a punchy commercial, then, instead of tho psychologically unsound, repiti-tious repiti-tious hammering away at the public? As far as we know, local disc-jockeys disc-jockeys have never been challenged chal-lenged by anyone short of their boss or sponsor. That sort of a situation is bad, no matter how I you look at it. We aim to remedy that right off. Next week, as you suspected, ' Jazzbo will be under the gun. |