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...composition "End of the Road," recorded November 14, 1956), Jerry Lee makes the vocal invocation: "Come on over, baby, whole lotta shakin' goin' on!" It's a firm but liquid tenor, at times quavering with the infusion of the Spirit (perhaps holy, perhaps profane) that Jerry Lee heard and sang in the Assembly of God meetings of his youth. Which is of course at the sundered heart of his music: a wrasslin' match between the Deity and the Devil. Jerry Lee, whose cousin is the evangelist Jimmy Swaggart, has often said he is a man of God doing Satan...
...remember another Lewis manifestation, on Dick Clark's "Bandstand." It was Thanksgiving Day 1957 and, as Tosches notes, the other guests were the teen duo Tom and Jerry, later Simon and Garfunkel. For the kids in Philadelphia, Pa., Lewis sang his follow-up hit, "Great Balls of Fire." He tore through the number and, toward the end, shook his long, slicked-back blond hair until it fell forward, like a toupee attached at the brow line, virtually covering his face. He was suddenly a peroxided version of the Addams Family's Cousin Itt, and for a moment I could feel...
...after a failed marriage to model-actress Julianne Phillips, Springsteen moved into a $14 million mansion in Beverly Hills, Calif. (the faithful jeered), wed Scialfa in 1991 (the faithful cheered) and sang about relationships, kids and his ennui (the faithful shrugged). Then in '95 he put out an album of folk songs, The Ghost of Tom Joad. It won a Grammy for best contemporary folk album, but it felt more like a Woody Guthrie tribute than a Springsteen record. The songs were stark and compelling, but the old optimism was gone. The characters of Tom Joad lived on the fringes...
SOUTH KOREA No Primary Role The National Assembly voted to reject the appointment of Chang Sang as the country's first female Prime Minister. President Kim Dae Jung said the vote was a blow to his country's women and that South Korea could not expect to become successful if its women continued to play a secondary role. The vote against Chang followed allegations that she had conducted ethically dubious speculation in land, claimed falsely to have studied at Princeton University and encouraged her son to take U.S. citizenship to avoid military service: all denied by Chang...
...packaged gender roles. At our talent show last week, the final—and most popular—song was “Take Ya Home” by the supposed fiancé of most of my female students: the rapper Lil BowWow. The chorus, which several female students sang in the background while dancing provocatively, glorifies the rapper, ending: “I mean you run through my mind like all the time to the point that I just wanna take ya home.” I found this song and the fact that several girls were singing...