Word: angels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Remember Then" is well reproduced. "Book of Love," "Heartbreak Hotel," "Young Love," and "Silhouettes" also stand out on this album because they sound very much like the originals. Only "Teen Angel" and "A Teenager in Love" suffer noticeably in this respect, and it is great testimony to the vocal flexibility of Sha Na Na that most of the songs sound as good as when they were first done on American Bandstand...
...Teen Angel" could be much better. Some of the great lines in rock 'n' roll are in this song, and it is tragic to see Mark Dinning's finest effort tainted. Perhaps the greatest lyrics in the song are the following...
...perhaps Robbie was honestly moved by the story and could not avoid sobbing. In addition, pauses in between some lines were too long, and the chord which Dinning muffled at the end of the original is a clean piano chord in the Sha Na Na version. Teen Angel must be rolling over in her grave...
...early as 1925, in The Salvation Hunters, he was experimenting with eroticism and the juxtaposition of light and shadow to create haunting shifts of mood. Perhaps his greatest coup was the discovery of a young unknown named Marlene Dietrich, whom he cast in 1930 in The Blue Angel and in six other well-remembered films, among them Morocco (1930), Shanghai Express (1932) and Scarlet Empress...