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Word: alo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...baritone to pants-too-tight wailing. We are reminded of his daring enunciation: all those words that suddenly began with h ("Hi want you, hi need you, hi-hi-hi love you") and his near Hawaiian avoiding of consonants ("Ya-hoo know Ah can be fou'/ Sittin' home all alo'"). Listening to his notorious rendition of Hound Dog on Milton Berle's TV show, we can hear gasps and giggles from the audience and feel the career-threatening danger of his burlesque moves, almost see his hip-level guitar wagging insolently like the first electric phallus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FROM HOUND DOG TO LOUNGE ACT | 8/4/1997 | See Source »

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