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Some of the party's best young men are bucking it-or deserting it. When Arlen Specter, now 38, found his career being stymied, he switched to the G.O.P. in 1965 and won the Philadelphia district attorney's office. Last year he nearly defeated Tate for the mayoralty. Another enterprising Democrat, James Walsh, 37, thought he was being held back by his elders. He successfully challenged the organization candidate in a mayoral primary, went on to win Scranton's city hall...
...particularly loves Harold Arlen and tells us so. In this case explanation aren't needed, for his rendition of "Sleeping Bee" makes his affection abundantly clear. When Hammond sings Arlen, he lowers his voice considerably and we understand. He shows us that the last lines of the song ("A Sleeping Bee done told me/I will walk with my feet off the ground/When my one true love I has found.") are special to him. He makes them special for everyone listening as well...
...most of the time, he sings straight and true. Hammond and his accompanist, Ron Takvorian, have no tricks, but who needs them for a Kurt Weill-Maxwell Anderson beauty like "Lost in the Stars" or Arlen's "Don't Like Goodbyes...
Forced to grope into theatrical history for an apt comparison, for a composer who was to the mainstream of Broadway music what Bacharach is to that mainstream now, I'd settle on Harold Arlen. Arlen too had a popular bent, wrote songs consciously and expressly for Negro singers, was by nature incapable of the straight, bright, terribly Broadway, Broadway tunes of which any second-rank Cole Porter creation is the perfect example, and on all these counts had to be regarded as an organism slightly foreign to the theatre (Mr. Arlen will of course forgive the laws of parallelism...
...letter from Harold Arlen. Fan letter from Bette Davis. Fan letter from Carol Burnett. Fan letter from Henry Mancini. Just listen to what he says: 'You not only write the melody line but also the second, third and fourth harmony parts.' Isn't that wonderful...