Word: ballads
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...Miles's slender, wavery trumpet tone never loses its quirky cool. Always listening intently to his direction are wizard apprentices, sorcerers in their own right. Tenorman Wayne Shorter composed four tunes on the album, notably the tense and shadowy Prince of Darkness. Drummer Tony Williams contributes a mysterious ballad as well as his inspired, erratic drum effects. Bassist Ron Carter lays the undertone for Pianist Herbie Hancock's inimitable brush strokes of color, while Miles quavers the quintessential, kaleidoscopic themes...
...finale, a projector cast a few words from Schillaci himself on the screen: "As most of the world's ills are traceable to old imperatives, old superstitions and old fools, this church is exuberantly dedicated to the future." The message was accompanied by a pop ballad, What the World Needs Now Is Love...
...that thousands of viewers also own high-powered stereo rig: suggests that they may well object to the feedback, spotty pickups or imbalances that occur when Carol Burnett drowns out Jack Jones in a duet, or the band on The Ed Sullivan Show blasts through a crooner's ballad. To compensate, about one-third of the singers on TV practice "lip sync"-mouthing the lyrics to a prerecorded sound track. But this leads to such unnatural sights as lips out of gear or Joey Heatherton dancing frantically and singing sweetly while her chest heaves like a half-miler...
...with Love, best of all in In the Heat of the Night. But this plethora of creditable performances apparently worked against him. Poitier got no nomination at all. One of the year's best-selling single records was the title tune from To Sir, with Love; a rock ballad, it was absent from the always conservative best-song list...
Moral & Misanthrope. The new songs are shapely and graceful, but their simplicity is deceptive. Several of them are suffused with religious feeling-a sorrowing series of meditations on the Christian ethic, outlined in a language that is close to simplistic. One, The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest, is a parable on temptation: Judas lures Jesus into a bawdyhouse, where he dies. "The moral of this story, the moral of this song,/Is simply that one should never be where one does not belong." I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine, an easygoing paraphrase of Joe Hill, becomes a jeremiad...