St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1957-11-08
THE LOWDOWN
By MAsCO YOUNG

! haired mixed up Little Richard vs.
no closer 10 becoming an evangel-
.st in the Seventh Day Adventist
church today than he was several
weeks before his trip 10 Australia
where he repeatedly tossed
couple Of expensive rings into a
river 10 prove his rejection Of
worldly things.
Last week Little Richard was
'still communlng with Cod" but
had made no definite move to-
ward breaking off all showbusi-
ness connections. Probably the
most tempting "sin-balt" staring
Richard in the face right now. Is
the nice. fat S15,o0o paycheck he'll
get for strutting his stuff at New
York's Paramount Theater when
DECAY Alan Freed stages his 81
gantic Christmas rock and roll
roll show.
SOUNDING OFF: Almost two
decades ago a very skinny bowtie
wearing gent named Frank Sin
atra was the Lord High and
Mighty Of all the bobby-sox wear
ing teenagers. Thee kids and many
adults swooned, screamed, tainted
clawed, fought and cried when
Frankie gave out with song
Mobs Of sinatra fans gave the ma
TONS police as much on not rnore)
trouble than todays rock and roll
fanatics. In those post-Depression
days swing was the thing. and
frankie was king Today those
teenagers who made up tho bulk
Of Sinatra's fans are grownups.
Many are the parents Of teenagers
who are In the thick OF the rock
and roll craze and as former
teenage swing fanatics themselves
they can fully appreciate and UNI
derstand the rock and roll motiva-
lions In their children. But not so
with Frankie. Forgetting about
the time when similar actions
from youngsters helped give him
fame and fortune, Frank, in a
Paris, France magazine feature
blasted rock and roll fans as
"cretinous goons' The dictionary
explains this as meaning mentally
deficient and idiotic in behavior
Angered at the attack on rock
and roll, today's Lord High and
Mighty Of the bobby-soxers, His
Majesty. Elvis Presley, described
sinatras blast as "the most bru-
tai, ugly degenerate, vicious
form OF expression II has been my
misfortune to hear"
PEOPLE a. PLACES: Out Of
the west coast former Cindy City
DECAY Magnificent Montague,
now heard over KSAN in San
Francisco, Is running contest
that's centered about the Bobby
Day recording LITTLE Bitty Pretty
One" Montague, the platter spin
ner who has a reputation for hat
ing men and loving women, plans
to select a little Bitty Pretty
One" from among his teenage lis
teners Joe Bostic, the busiest
gospel music DECAY and promoter
on the east coast, Is back on New
Yorks wATv (Channel 1877 with
sizzling one-hour variety show.
He kicked off Varetta billiard,
the 1--WE Bombers and Jimmy
Randolph Piano great Doro-
thy Donegan, in New York for a
long playing engagement, was
gifted with white orchid cor
sage by Martha Raye Latest
word from New York's Great
White Way Is that Nat Cole was
offered and accepted big role in
a forthcoming Broadway musical
Sammy Davis Jr's next TV date
win be on Eddie Fishers segment.
90. Billy Ward and his Dominoes
are now under the wings OF Cen
eral Artists Corporation, as a re-
suit OF a contract recently linked.
The Platters have made so much
money since they were discovered
on a Los Angeles parking lot
three years ago that they're now
buying their own parking lots in
LA.
QUOTE OF THE WEEK. Eddie
Rochester" Anderson: Il don't 60
along with all who thing that
Negro humbles himself and his
race when he appears in a ser
wants role. For an actor Il should
be just another part"