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...tall order when many onscreen songs may be getting a boost from pitch correction and other professional sound-enhancement technology. For instance, as Vinyl Street member and die-hard Glee fan Joanna Aven points out, there are only six singers onstage in the Glee version of "Don't Stop Believin' " - which became a top iTunes download and hit No. 4 on the Billboard chart, surpassing Journey's 1981 original - but they sound like they have three times as many voices. A handful of real-life singers can't measure up to heightened audience expectations. "They're like, 'Well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Glee Factor: A Rise in Amateur Singing Groups | 12/9/2009 | See Source »

...mother, your maddening wife, your feckless kids. Meanwhile, the big-F Family drama of the declining Mafia business offered popcorn entertainment alongside the deeper insights. Some fans may have hated the series' ending, but the fact that the show's last moments obsessed us demonstrates that America never stopped believin' in the power of this story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 17 Shows That Changed TV | 9/6/2007 | See Source »

...Yeah, it really does; it's unbelievable. The only thing that's different is the rhythm is a strum. [Starts singing in a quavering falsetto.] Fiiiiiiiirst when there's nothiiiiiing but a slooooooow glowing dreeaaam. [The others join in in harmony.] What a feeling. Bein's believin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mighty Funny | 4/21/2003 | See Source »

...have a little difficulty being a househusband," says Larry, who struggles to balance the powerful image of older, more macho times with current necessity. "But I love being with the kids. I also believe it is good for them to see me doin' housework, so they don't keep believin' that outside work belongs only to the man and inside is the woman." This is quite a change in attitude for a man who insisted his wife quit nursing school after he and Joy married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Through the Eyes of Children: David, West Virginia | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

There are hints in Wendy Waldman of a thematic unity, a unifying consciousness that weaves the songs in and out of each other. In "Western Lullaby," the opening cut, she sings "Leave behind your visions dark and dreary... for you know that singin' is believin' "and it's almost as if her album is the dream she's leading you into after she has put you to sleep. There are moments on the album when the songs seem to fit together as nicely as a string of dreams. The slow western drawl promising to take you away "across the wide...

Author: By Greg Lawless, | Title: Searching for the Queen of Hearts | 4/7/1975 | See Source »

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