Many of you remember The Advocate's scurrilous review of the Ethel
Merman Disco Album I posted . It was shameful. Well, this week, a man
from near my NY home town wrote to The Advocate and "straightened" them
out. Excerpt:
As an out reporter who favorably reviewed The Ethel Merman Disco Album
for Billboard in 1979, I don't think you should be so quick to dismiss
Merman's effort. At the time, she was the biggest (in many ways)
Broadway star to do disco. Disco was a fun era and must have had
something going for it, since many young gays and straights are enjoying
its current revival at some clubs and on major FM radio outlets.
Perhaps reviewer Dave White has become a tad jaded, what with all the
great music being ground out now by the creatively bankrupt music
industry - such muck as boy bands, girl bands, some rap, hip-hop, and
God knows what.
Sounds like someone we know..............
Jerry
np: Ethel Merman - Something for the Boys
