LOONEY TOONS

What I’m beginning to discover is not only that anything is possible — everything is.

During a brief editorial controversy a couple months ago, concerning whether or not to publish Craig Karpel’s “The Great Indo-China Medicine Show” (CREEM, July), one of the central objections raised was that maybe it was a little too far out — nothing even remotely like it could ever happen.

Warren Beatty, Carole King and James Taylor shot that one in the head. You’ll pardon the American Independence of my expression.

So I wasn’t all that surprised when a friend, who’d recently left the record business, called to explain that my worst suspicions were true.

The 18 year old vote really was lobbied into ,office by the record companies.

As much a canard as this may seem at first, think about it: all record company ads in 1972 have carried some sort of get-out-the-vote message. And those companies are not known for their philanthropy — not Warnercom (nee Kinney), nor CBS nor MGM nor MCA nor even Gulf & Western. Not a radical in the bunch. Liberals, yes; radicals, no.