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Remember, however, that Hall recorded this album when easy-listening acts like Fleetwood Mac dominated the airwaves before the Sex Pistols, Elvis Costello and Graham Parker high-energy excitement back into the market. Sacred Songs distinguishes itself as a suppressed, but nevertheless prophetic, work hailing a new era of "confusion, profanity and energy...
...some fine passes at old favorites (My Shining Hour, More Than You Know); some comfortable negotiating with contemporary material, including New York, New York, Billy Joel's Just the Way You Are (pay a little attention here, Billy); and, astonishingly, a beautiful rendition of Jimmy Webb's Mac Arthur Park, which Sinatra has built up simply by scaling down the psychedelic reveries (imagine him singing "Someone left the cake out in the rain") and letting a shimmering love song stand plain and perfect. The third record of the set is a Gordon Jenkins orchestral fantasia about things...
Which is not to say most will not find something useful or valuable. It includes, for example, caloric counts for popular junk food items (A Whopper has 606 compared to a Big Mac's 557); a broad bibliography; a profile of wunderkind Bill Rodgers; a re-evaluation of the specious but spiritually uplifting legend of Pheidippiedes; a thourough survey of running equipment, apparel, and periodicals; and up to the minute status reports on the latest pertinent medical studies...
Most seniors' these require hours spent in the depths of Widener stacks and slaving away at a Mac in total isolation...
...Dave Winfield name the ingredients of a Big Mac in under four seconds and if so, will he reveal what's in the special sauce...