45’s

LUCY — Crabby Appleton (Elektra) A follow-up to the smash “Go Back”, this one should make it just as high. Crabby is not the kind of band that murders you with virtuosity; it is the simplicity of their ideas and the tightness with which those ideas are executed that defines their impact. “Lucy” is of the same mold, though a bit more intense than anything on their excellent first album, If this one doesn’t make it, I may just go back to listening to FM radio. B+

EL CONDOR PASA — Simon and Garfunkel (Columbia) It’s sad to see that Simon and Garfunkel, who have given us so many fine singles, should degenerate to this kind of tripe. Culled from their Troubled Water LP, it could only have been released as a quickie money-maker. I realize that it’s cute, but we all know they’re capable of much better. C—