Recordings

March, 1976

When it comes to singing (pop variety), the ladies--bless 'em--seem to have it all over the men in both quantity and quality. Not a month goes by without a couple of first-rate LPs featuring women vocalists landing on our turntable. This go-round, there happened to be more than ever. Barbra Streisand's Lazy Afternoon (Columbia) is, in terms of the material, the best thing she's done in a long while. Except for Shake Me, Wake Me, which perhaps was put in for comic relief, the songs are uniformly...