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Show By LINDA NORRIS 17HILE the record industry ' ' has been singing the blues of recent months insofar as business busi-ness on an overall basis is concerned, con-cerned, Capitol goes on and on, making albums by the dozens and scoring hit after hit . . . This is one company that has not put all its eggs in one basket the rock 'n roll basket, that is . . . They offer a variety of albums from opera to jazz and the works in between ... A beautiful example of the "in-between" is an album, recorded by T. Texas Tyler, entitled en-titled "Salvation." "Salvation," as the title denotes, de-notes, contains religious songs and hymns and the results are outstanding out-standing . . . Tyler, known as the man with a million friends, embraced em-braced Christianity in 1958 and . turned his back on a successful show business career to hold evangelistic evan-gelistic meetings throughout the U.S. and Canada, giving testimony testi-mony and singing gospel songs . . He includes in his first album of this nature, "A Beautiful Life," "He Remembered Me," "Why Did He?", "The Old Country Church," "Live Your Religion Every Day," "When I Look Up" and "I Saw Him There," among others The country and western field is well represented by popular Merle Travis who has come up with a tuneful album containing songs he wrote, sings and plays . . Samples are "No Vacancy," "Divorce Me C.O.D.," "Fat Gal," "Kentucky Means Paradise," "Kinfolks in Carolina," "So Round, So Firm," "Cincinnati Lou," "Sweet Temptation," "Law-day, "Law-day, What a Gal" and "Three Times Seven" . . . You needn't be three times seven to recognize real style. |