... DISC DATA Love Will Turn You Around Ken- nv Rogers (Libertv LBG 30350^ Rogers, reportedly the highest paid singer in the States these days, is all but lost to country music on the evidence of this exceedingly bland album. The voice, with that slight emotional croak, is great, the songs are nothing much. Bugle Call Rag Harry Roy and his Orchestra (Dccca RFL 20) This disc is a tittle misleading ...

... 'I know what you like' La Cage aux Folles--Broadway cast (RCA BL84824) With the London production due to open in May, this will be a hot item for the Christmas trade. Composer Jerry Herman has long proved to be one of the shrewdest of Broadway musical writers, and his touch has not deserted him, even if it is not exactly a distinguished score. I Am What I Am may be the hit number, but ...

... The Fifth Dimension (ABC ABCL 5135) This looks like a conscious attempt on the part of the Fifth Dimension to get back to the roots of their music, but one has the feeling that they are too late, despite the fact that they have always been a superb vocal group. Like it or not, they are probably stuck in the Las Vegas groove now, which is no bad thing for Las Vegas. Dance Craze Johnny Howard ...

... Singing the blues Twenty years ago I remember seeing Dana Gillespie in the very first stage production of Tommy at Hornchurch and before that she was in Hair. But the main preoccupation throughout her career has been in earning a reputation as one of the best blues singers in Europe, her skills in this direction being demonstrated on Have I Got Blues lor You, on Wolf 120.962 CD. This is ...

... McJazz Lives On Sandy Brown (One-Up OU 2092) When Sandy Brown died in March this year, British and, indeed, world jazz lost a strikingly gifted and idiosyncratic musician. These tracks, recorded in the late fifties and early sixties by Denis Preston and mainly released on earlier albums, form an excellent tribute to a man who was not only a clarinettist with an instantly recognisable style but ...

... New theatre centre Steven Berkoff, whose London heatre Group have been per forming at the Greenwich Theatre, has discovered a building in Isling ton which could solve some ofNorth London's theatre problems. In Al- r meida Street, not far from the King's Head, it is Georgian and in very good condition and even used for a short while as a music-hall in the 1840s. There is a basement and another ...

... DISC DATA COUSIN JOE. the veteran blues man from New Orleans, will be celebrating his 70th birthday on December 20 in Europe, which he visited for the first time in 1964 He is doing a number of British dates during the tour, mainly in colleges. but he is at the 100 Club, Oxford Street, on December 12 Jim Simpson of Big Bear Records, Birmingham, who represents Cousin Joe here, has fust ...

... Dream Babies--Girls and Girl Groups of the Sixties (Capitol EG 26 0573 1) If the late sixties and early seventies was the age of the singer/songwriter, the early sixties was the era of the solo singer and vocal group. Just how many of them made a few records and sank out of sight is demonstrated on this fascinating album of disposable trash, the principle being, of course, that even dross ...

... Dudley Moore at the Wavendon Festival (Black Lion BLP 12151). As Alun Morgan writes in his sleeve note. Dudley Moore's success as a comedian is inclined to make us forget his real ability as a jazz pianist, especially in those items with a Latin American flavour. There are some Moore originals in this crisp, witty and melodic collec tion, in which bassist Pete Morgan and drummer Chris Karan ...

... Splendid stuff by Sandy Sandy Wilson Thanks the Ladies (Overtures OVER 1001) It has taken some time for this to find its way on to disc, for it was recorded at the Players in 1972. Nevertheless, it is worth the wait, for it is a reminder that Wilson, best known for The Boy Friend, is one of the best lyricists we possess, following broadly in the tradition of Coward but having more bite ...

... DISC DATA The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (That's Entertainment TER 1029) The mammoth Channel 4 presentation of Nicholas Nickleby had rather more of Stephen Oliver's music than the stage production. It is mainly incidental music in the truest sense of the term, wonderfully apt in its Victorian way, but hardly standing up in its own right. Harry Rabinowitz is the conductor. ...

... DISC DATA Mersey Beat (Parlophonc PCSP 1783293) It was Bill Harry who first coined the phrase Mersey Beat and to celebrate the fact started his own paper of that title, which charted the course of the developing Merseyside music scene a full couple of years before Britain became aware of the Beatles. This double album, graced by Barry Thorpe's painting which shows all the youthful Mersey ...