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...strong history in R. and B. of female singers taking lovers to task. Pop music, of course, is full of songs about romance gone wrong, but when R.-and-B. divas dress men down, they're often a bit more real. Blues great Bessie Smith, in Hard Time Blues, sang about leaving a man with "dirty ways"; today Erykah Badu castigates her cell phone-hogging lover on her song Tyrone; TLC ridicules deadbeat men on No Scrubs, and the vocal group Destiny's Child cries out for men who can pay their girlfriends' Bills, Bills, Bills. Hip-hop soul singer...
This year, seniors danced and sang along as city council members and candidates held hands on the steps of Memorial Church and sang well-known songs like "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands...
...would fade. "We are such stuff as dreams are made on," she quoted, "and our little life is rounded with a sleep." There were muffled sobs as Caroline's husband Edwin and her children Rose, 11, Tatiana, 9, and John, 6, lit candles and hip-hop artist Wyclef Jean sang, "It was time for me to go home/ And I'll be smiling in paradise," from the Jimmy Cliff reggae song Many Rivers to Cross...
...international elite, he was clearly beginning to get the hang of the strange but pleasurable life opening up before him. There were difficult moments: the Rolling Stones' Sympathy for the Devil would start playing in a room where Kennedy was hanging out, and he'd exit before Mick Jagger sang, "I shouted out, 'Who killed the Kennedys...
John Francis ("Honey Fitz") Fitzgerald 1863-1950 Tenement born, he became Boston's mayor, and sang from a tabletop at grandson Jack's Senate election...