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Show By LYN CONNELLY IF Jack Paar must take oft on his periodic vacations, and apparently he must, we wish he'd leave the store in charge of clever clev-er and witty Joey Bishop more often . . . The boy Just fits in so naturally . . . He's quiet, unassuming unas-suming and really funny . . . And you get just enough exposure of him ... As much as you enjoy Bishop it's . always nice to see Jack back . . . Hugh Downs is a good substitute, too, but he is more the scholar than the wit and late at night when we're tired and relaxed we just don't feel like thinking too deeply about anything any-thing and Hugh has us even serious seri-ous about commercials. PLATTER CHATTER CAPITOL: "Gather "Round" is the friendly album title of one of our friendliest entertainers-Tennessee entertainers-Tennessee Ernie Ford ... In full dimensional stereo yet, Ernie, backed by the arranging and conducting con-ducting of Jack Fasclnato, has one of his best offerings to date . . . Numbers include such stomp-ers stomp-ers as "Brown's Ferry Blues," "Old Blue," "Night Herding Song," "Darby's Rum," "Pretty Little Pink," "Barbara Allen," "21 Years," "Grandfather's Clock" and other favorites . . . This is a ringer. In singles, The Eligiblcs count "24 Hours" and cover it with "Faker, Faker" . . . Sam Butera makes "Easy Rot kin, " sound like just exactly that . . . Flip side has "Smllin Billy" ... The Louvln Bros, do a couple of originals origi-nals that click "My Curly Headed Head-ed Baby" with "You're Learning" Learn-ing" on the reverse . '. . Les Baxter Bax-ter revives the always exciting "Sabre Dance" with sensational effect . . . This one should do big . . . "Milord" is on the flip side. MERCURY: The Gay lords do "The Shovel," unusual and really real-ly good, backed by "Jessie James" . . . Good disk . . . Sll Austin fans will be delighted with his latest biscuit "Summertime," "Summer-time," hauntirg as ever and with an Austin flavor all its own. |