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possible for Crowell to sound bad. His voice is forthright and powerful and he’s on his way to developing a personal and personable singing style “Rodney Cro-well” is by no means lousy and certainly ten limes better than most of the junk around nowadays. But ifs not the devas-tating work some of us were hoping for.

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Karla DeVito:

Is This a Cool World or What?

Bill House & John Jansen, producers. Epic NFE 37014

Trying to crawl out from under the weighty influence of Meat Loaf comes Kuria DeVito, the featured vocalist on Loafs 1977 tour and hisstage foil during Paradise by the Dashboard Light. Though not entirely successful. “Is This a Cool World or What?” signals the ar-rival of a new female rock & roller who should soon be giving Pat Benatar a run for her money.

DeVito’s stance, that of cute littlc tough girl, is similar to Benatafs and Rachel Sweefs. though she is a morę ca-pable singer than eitheronc. But producers Bill House and John Jansen are as guilty of providing her with lackluster materia! as they are of overindulgence. They bury her crisp vocaI on Jim Stein-man’s Hea\en Can Wait under so many chorał flourishes that it loses the prayer-ful simplicity of Loafs original ver-sion.

Though she's not as pretentious a writer as Steinman. her four originals here are not particularly inspired. In generał, her delivery is exuberant but of-ten careless. as if she had too much to say in too little time. Her ballad Just like You

and Randy Newman’s Just One Smile sound insincere; ifs apparent she w-ould rather beli out rollicking power pop than croon over unrecjuitcd love

DeVito recently appeared on Stein-man’s solo album, “Bad for Good,” and received favorable notices for succeed-ing Linda Ronstadt in The Pirates of Penzance on Broadway. (She comes to rock & roli from an early theatrical back-ground.) Ali of this activity should con-tinue to spark her career. assuming she drops the Meat Loaf-Steinman trap-pings and fetches a producer who can deliver on her rich potential.

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Aretha Franklin:

The l^egendary Queen of Soul

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In 1960, when she was eighteen, Aretha Franklin signed with Columbia records. She remained there for seven years be-fore moving to Atlantic and cutting the long string of r&b hits that established her as one of the greatest female pop singers of her generation. “The Legen-dary Queen of Soul” is an extremely valuable reissue; it dispels the com-monly-held notion that all she recorded

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