Month August 1974
(editor’s note – no ex post facto proof for Mercer Ellington, Al Wilson, James Cleveland, the Oak Ridge Boys, the Pointer Sisters, or Ray Charles and the Raeletts)
Woodstocker’s Song Wins At the Spa
Daily Freeman, September 1, 1974…
Sparse Crowd Mars Song Festival Opener
by Donald E. Wilcock, The Times Record, August 31, 1974
What would happen if they put on a giant concert and nobody showed up? Last night, the opening act of the four-day American Song …
Festival Under Way
by Don A. Metivier, The Post-Star, August 31, 1974
A Connecticut hospital worker and three West Coast musicians were the first winners at the American Song Festival as it got off to a rocky start Friday …
(editor’s note – no ex post facto proof)
The Post-Star, August 27, 1974
The Times Record, August 27, 1974
A bow gallops with Gypsy-like abandon at SPAC
by Edward French, The Knickerbocker News, August 22, 1974
THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA, EUGENE ORMANDY conducting, with SILVIA MARCOVICI, violin, and VIRGIL FOX, organ at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center Wednesday evening
While …
A Whimper — Not A Bang
by Doug deLisle, The Times Record, August 27, 1974
IF THERE IS, as theologians love to speculate, a personal hell for all of us. I often fear that mine will consist of being strapped …
Bennington Banner, August 21, 1974
Concert Canceled
The Post-Star, August 19, 1974
N.Y. (AP) – One of the top progressive rock groups, “Emerson, Lake and Palmer,” canceled a 7 p.m. Sunday evening concert here due to damaged equipment.
Officials at the Saratoga Performing Arts …
Benny Goodman Still Too Good to Believe
by Sandra Gartner, The Rutland Daily Herald, August 15, 1974
Benny Goodman and his Jazz Ensemble cannot be reviewed, but only absorbed and watched with awe. Goodman, who created a subtle swing …
Goodman Takes 7,000 on Nostalgia Trip
by Don A. Metivier, The Post-Star, August 15, 1974
It may have been 1974 but it sounded like 1938 Tuesday evening at the Saratoga Festival.
Benny Goodman, the King of Swing, returned to …