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...elderly women. And the radio is so loud. I can hear the mayor's voice. I hear him telling people to go north. And I also hear that his voice is extremely calm. It reminds me of my grandmother telling me that everyone would gather around the radio and listen to the Voice of America. It is apparent that the mayor has already become that...
...with music, With words and music. Please listen and we'll begin Introducing Irving Berlin. That song-writing fellow Wants to say hello, So we will help him along To say it with a beautiful song. - The Revelers sing on the "Good Gulf Program...
...three years; now he'd gone to Hollywood to write a musical for Douglas Fairbanks, "Reaching for the Moon," and after discouraging previews the studio had cut most of the songs. "I developed the damnedest feelings of inferiority," Berlin said. "I got so I called in anybody to listen to my songs - stockroom boys, secretaries. One blink of an eye and I was stuck...
...wave/ By letting her seat wave" - was bowdlerized to "...By letting her feet wave" in this Merman version (from the 1938 film "Alexander's Ragtime Band"), but the clarion voice makes the song, if not the seat, swing. Merman makes it about star quality, not sex. For true cupidity, listen to Monroe's take, in "There's No Business Like Show Business"; it restores the seat, and the heat...
...Strokes Is This It (RCA) It's impossible to listen to this album without noting all the '70s punk/pop acts being ripped off left and right. It's also impossible to resist nodding your head and singing along. The Strokes may be derivative - of the Velvet Underground, Television, David Bowie and many others - but to borrow a phrase from Courtney Love, they fake it so real, they are beyond fake. Is This It is full of great guitar hooks, dry pop lyrics ("Alone we stand, together we fall apart /I think I'll be all right") and old-fashioned rock...