The fastest-spinning property in pop records this week is not a sideburned bad boy from Tennessee, but a scrubbed-faced, clean-cut campus type from Hollywood. Beefed up in an echo chamber-homogenized and pasteurized in a release called Young Love (Dot Records), the baby baritone of Cinemactor Tab (The Girl He Left Behind) Hunter has teenagers wrapped in a burlap fog.
Hunter's message of hope and heart-balm ("Young love, our love, we share with deep emotion") was not lost on his fellow filmsters, nor was its bestseller ranking: first on almost all popularity charts, including first in store sales and on jukeboxes, most often...