|
Las Vegas, Jan 29
The Cowsills (6), Kaye Stevens, russ Black Orch (15); $7.50
Billing of The Cowsills and Kaye Stevens has everybody singing for more than 75 minutes, with little comedy relief other than Cowsills' cute family chatter and Miss Stevens' flip interslicings and mugging. Combination is expected to be a fair draw for two frames.
Cowsills' move out ponderously with each youngster dishing up a brief chorus and Barbara (Mama) tossing in her warbling bit. A curtain stagewait separates this seg from the unit going strong at their group chants, accompanied by the lads in the family. Theirs is a contemporary country sound mash in the main. Barry Cowsill does a loose-jointed impression of Mick Jagger's "Honky Tonk Woman," replete with pink leotard, which may have oldsters wondering what it's all about. Susan's "When I'm 64" misses somehow, her advanced age of 10 moving her out of the baby class and puppet attitude lending a strange automated air to movements.
Best set is reviva of MGM disk hits, winding up in a new lacquer repro of "Two By Two," a swinging gospel shout that brings down the curtain to appreciative hands. Scissoring the opening individual efforts would give the act a big lift from the start. As it is, the group doesn't get off the ground for some time, until socko blends give necessary power for blastoff.
. . .
Will
|
