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...Drifters and a dozen other soloists and groups were giving them voice. The godfather of this strange, beautiful new creature was Atlantic?s co-founder, Ahmet Ertegun. And his adopted family was a handsome one indeed. In the late ?50s he had the top of the pops: ballad group (The Drifters) and comic group (The Coasters), R&B shouter (Ray Charles) and Sinatra heir-apparent (Bobby Darin...
...sound as "street but sweet"; her tracks typically feature gentle vocals riding on a hard beat. Aaliyah's singing on her latest CD is more assertive than in the past and her melodic lines more distinct. The best songs--the thumping More Than a Woman and the elegant ballad It's Whatever--display a growing sophistication and emotional depth. One track, Never No More, is about a woman leaving a physically abusive relationship...
...getting Skynyrd to play a ballad b) playing with the dimmer switch on their tiny little butts c) releasing nitric oxide d) clapping with their tiny little wings...
...that, I suppose, was never the root of South Park’s humour. It was those bi-visaged flatulent Canadian television stars, Terrence and Phillip, who destroyed the moral fibre of South Park, thus igniting the war against the neighbours to the north and spurring the immortal war ballad, “Blame Canada.” Like I said, I just didn’t get it. Canadians’ jaws are firmly attached to the upper halves of their faces, we’re only as flatulent as the next guy, and, I implore you, what...
...horn section had showed up at his birthday party. He was just kidding, or wishing. But who needed them when two legends were filling that tiny stage? A living legend, Les Paul, and the precious memory of his partner. He closed the first set that night with the plaintive ballad 'Just One More Chance.' He was playing it, he said, 'in remembrance of my partner Mary...