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What people remember about Monette was that she was "one hell of a looker"; what they remember about Spiro are the pranks. While at Loyola, he sponsored an expensive formal, and tried to pass off an unknown nightclub singer as Aretha Franklin. The fraud was exposed, but when Hanemann saw Spiro after he transferred to Tulane, there were signs in Spiro's car promoting another Aretha dance. "Spiro, what are these signs?" asked Hanemann. "No, no," Pavlovich assured him, "this time she really is coming...
...this poet can handle provocative banter all right. It bursts from the wide body of her "Poem for Aretha...
...diana ross had to get an afro wig pushed every Black singer into Blackness and negro entertainers into negroness you couldn't jive when she said "you make me/feel" the blazers had to reply "gotta let a man be/a man" aretha said "when my show was in the lost and found/you came along to claim it" and joplin said "maybe...
...Ronstadt's wide ranging but perfectly controlled performance on "Many Rivers to Cross," a rather clumsily-worded song that could easily be a bore. Ronstadt has never been more relaxed and poised than in "Tracks of My Tears," an unremarkable retread recorded by performers ranging from Smokey Robinson to Aretha Franklin to Johnny Rivers. Her subtle interpretation infuses it with a genuine but understated pathos. The song is striking proof of Ronstadt's artistic maturity: two or three years ago she probably would have let her voice get away from her and sung it to death. Now she lets...
...Motown Chief Berry Gordy's private caste system; the Supremes, the Temptations, Marvin Gaye, and Smokey Robinson and the Miracles had first choice. Such low-priority groups as the Spinners, the Four Tops and the Pips received the leavings. "We wanted to do a gospel album long before Aretha," says Gladys, "and Berry saved the soft songs for Diana Ross." But in 1967 a catchy soul rocker, I Heard It Through the Grapevine, sailed onto the charts for the Pips. Two other singles had scored for them by the time their Motown contract expired in 1973, and they quickly...