Word: uptowners
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...spent almost 20 years in corporate jobs. On a lark she registered in a millinery class at the Fashion Institute of Technology, and 10 years later she had a career doing what she always loved best - working with her hands. Her designs reflect her cross-section of customers, from uptown matrons to Japanese tourists, and she asserts, "There really is no substitute for a handmade hat." Feinman also stocks modestly priced jewelry, bags, scarves and gloves. Custom hats are available for 10 percent extra...
...like a mess, but it isn't; all of Spector's productions have a solid beat - they swing, in fact - and in each number some distinctive solo instrument rides clearly above the mix, carefully placed, articulating the hooks. (Take a listen to the acoustic guitar in this segment from "Uptown.") One of the most interesting components in the Wall of Sound is the horn section, which modulates through the chords without accent, like a pianist who hits a chord once and then holds down the reverb pedal until the next harmonic shift. Other elements define the beat but the horns...
...There were other singers as well - Darlene Love later became even more important to me than Ronnie. There were The Crystals on "He's a Rebel" and "Uptown" and "Da Doo Ron Ron," "Ben E. King on "Rose in Spanish Harlem," Sonny Charles and the Checkmates on " Black Pearl." But Ronnie was first...
...night out with Dave, who's just out of the Coast Guard and looking for trouble. We start out at the Village Idiot drinking the bar wine - always a mistake. Find ourselves at the Crystal Ballroom, one of the last true bum bars on the Bowery, where a slumming uptown bartender has finagled a cheap P.A. and convinced some downtown bands to play. We switch to the gin I have in a hip flask. Kim, lead singer of Da Willys, throws herself to the floor in the middle of a an uptempo version of "Last Train to Clarksville". She moves...
...protest as well as for emotional expression, as in the tune "I Had No Right," which tells the story of '60s anti-war radicals Daniel and Philip Berrigan. But perhaps the overriding theme on this album is one of renewal. In "Spring Street" Williams confides her battle with uptown pretensions and affirms that she'll push [herself] up through the dirt and shake [her] petals free. In each sentiment expressed in The Green World, Dar Williams has surely accomplished her goal of "capturing life at strange angles...