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rhythq and blues, country and western, and ,other purer folk sound @as
yet to cross the Atlantic, The EI1gz
:fish &ways have 'been a bit behind us
"wltriess Olaver, a gqod old-fashioned
American musical comedy, or Suturdug Night and Sunday Morning and
-in the 1930s'
otherrealisticfilms
style. Often they do improve uponour models; the Beatles, with h e i r
American accents,their savagely delivered'musical
clichCs, their tight
pants, hair cuts and
wild 'gyrations,
are more -entertaining and intelligent
than anything we produced ten years
ago.
Butthe'BeatIes remain derivative, a
deliberate imitation of an American
genre, They -are surely n o t , singing
ih a musicd tradition 'which evolved
spontaneously Boin their own lives or
from a 'haturd:'habit
of expression. This is pcobably why the reaction at
Carnegie Hall was not a real response
td" a real stimulus.There
weren't
too many soul people here
that
night
either on the stage or, .in
the audience. Thefull
house was
made up Idrgelp of upper-middle-class
young ladies, stylishly dressed, carefully' made .up; brought into town by
ptivatecars
or ,suburbanbuses for
their night to howl; to let*go, scream,
bump, twistand
clutch themselves
ecstatically out "therein the floodlights
for everyone to see; and with ( d e full
blessings of .all Authority: indulgent
parents,
profiteering
businessmen,
gleeful national media, even ~e police.
Later they can all go home and grow
up like their mommies, but this was
theirchancetoattempt.
a very safe
and very private kind of raptpre. .
Most did what was expected bf them
and went home disappointed. Disappointed b,ecause nothing really passed
from the stagetotheaudience
that
night, n o r from one member 'of the
audience to another. There Was mayhem and clapping of .hands, but 'no
sense of a shared experience, none 02
theexuttation feltat aspontaneous
gathering of good folk musicians, or,
more important, at a civil rights rally
wherefreedom songs are sung.. The
spectacle of all those anguished young
grrls at Carnegie Hall, trying to follow
''I Warlt To Huld Your Hand," seems
awfully vapid compared to the young
men and women who sing "I Woke Up
This
Mornid
With ' My Miud"
(, , . Stayed-on Freedom). The Beatles
themselves are lively and not kithout
charm.Perhaps ,their greatest virpe
is their, sense of -humor . and -,selfcaricature. But Beatlemania as"a p h nomcnon is manlia for -dull uiinds.
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