Word: boleros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Beck's personal discovery) on vocals, Truth influenced just about every hard rock album that followed it, including Led Zeppelin I. A combination of classic blues ("I Ain't Superstitious" and "You Shook Me") given a new breath of life, and innovative rock ("Shapes of Things" and "Beck's Bolero"), Truth was Beck at his best...
...work of Columbia Producers Andrew Kazdin and Thomas Shepard, Everything is actually something less than that, a Franco-Spanish program including Chabrier's España, Ravel's Bolero, a mini-suite from Bizet's Carmen and the Malagueña of Ernesto Lecuona (only Latin in the group). Infinitely superior in sound quality and Moog mastery to the same company's alltime classical bestseller Switched-On Bach, Everything is not to be confused with the originals, nor is it to be condemned for its license. Harmless fun and easy to take, it asks the question...
...theater is to be torn down, Impresario Dmitri Weismann (read Flo Ziegfeld) orders a first and last reunion of his celebrated personnel. All the familiar types attend: Phyllis, the leggy brunette (Alexis Smith) who married well; Sally, the third-from-the-left blonde (Dorothy Collins) who didn't. The bolero-dancing couple (Victor Griffin and Jayne Turner) who bought a Fred Astaire franchise ("Styles change; you never can tell"), the wisecracking queen bee (Yvonne De Carlo) with her hive of young drones; the feathery Continental (Justine Johnston) who remembers Franz Lehar dedicating a waltz to her (" 'Liebchen...
Chanel modified the shape of her suits with a bolero or cutoff blazer jacket, cropped and V-necked. Nina Ricci's Gerard Pipart kept his daytime clothes straight and simple, took a giant steppe to Russia with evening wear that featured fur Cossack hats, officers' coats, boyar pants (Russian-style knickers) and gypsy dresses. Louis Feraud concentrated less on shape than on fabrics. Guy Laroche seconded Pipart's Russian notions, and then some: to a background of music, slides, and Tartar dancing, his models turned out in tunics and knickers, babushkas and cummerbunds, capes rimmed with...
...know Ravel's Bolero. It is difficult to get it wrong. The Pops did. Not in tempo, or interpretation, but the actual score itself. Players kept missing notes, First the French horns came in wrong, then the English horn massacred an arpeggio, and soon the entire performance was beyond redemption...