Music: Pop Records

Her manager calls her "The Animal." "She moves just like Elvis," he says. Adds her director: "When she starts singing, I hafta chase my kids out of the room." This nemesis of children is a babyfaced, 20-year-old Swedish-born singer named Ann-Margret Olson, who, with an arcane appeal to the teen-age mystique, has one of the summer's fastest-moving single records. Songstress Margret (she has dropped her last name professionally) is that rarity in the record field: a girl singer who can really make a pop song pop. In a pulsating, slightly nasalized voice, pleasant...

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