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...custom of recalling events too numerous and complex to fit dramatically into a single scene. In the dazzling aria di bravura, Wasn't It Operatic?, she sings of her successful debut in Die Fledermaus in 1955, and of her subsequent leading roles in Faust, Don Giovanni and The Ballad of Baby Doe. A quartet of music critics, bearing bouquets of flowery superlatives, utters the rousing paean, These Tired Ears Lo at Long Last Rejoice. They praise Beverly's performance in The Tales of Hoffmann-in which she portrays all three heroines. They worship her Cleopatra in Handel...
Webb wrote a wistful ballad about the affair called By the Time I Get to Phoenix. As recorded by Glen Campbell, it rose medium-high in the bestseller charts and won Campbell a Grammy award for the best male vocal performance of 1967. Meantime, Webb and a friend were planning a movie about a balloon trip. The only part of the venture that got off the ground was Webb's title song. It was recorded by The 5th Dimension, and it soared high in the charts, sold 875,000 copies and won some more Grammies. Trans World Airlines bought...
Maybe Dylan believes in the early Christians. They were believable. The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest is the story of what happens to a modern hero who gets tempted as Christ was by the Devil in the wilderness. The hero, Frankie Lee, dies in a whorehouse that Judas Priest convinced him was some sort of heaven. In this one, Dylan twists his images a little more the way he used to. Frankie Lee is Dylan's conception of most people. "Nothing is revealed," says a little boy (Dylan) at the end. He is saying Frankie is revealed...
...Just so, the recorded voice of William Jennings Bryan seems to rub elbows with a fantasy concerning an ancient veteran of the Battle of Manila. And a talking blues for Edgar Allen Poe (which recounts the remarkable circumstances of his demise in Baltimore, Maryland) is followed by a mocking ballad for Lyndon Johnson, in high Nashville country style...
...melodic continuity set to disciplined rhythmics. The finest chapter of their musical book is in Verse, a rubato theme that moves into a flowing waltz tempo. Edging into the avant-garde on 8-4 Beat and Black Circle, the instrumentalists whirl gracefully around some unexpected chords. On the quiet ballad Summer Nights, vibes and piano trace shimmering patterns on the surface of a serene pool...