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...Benny Goodman Story;" he wrote the songs (including "This Could Be the Start of Something Big" and "Impossible") for a TV book-musical "The Bachelor;" he recorded some spoken-word fairy tales with hipster lingo that became hits and a book (the still-funny "Bop Fables"); he published a collection of short stories ("Fourteen for Tonight") and a study of TV comics ("The Funny Men"); he wrote the lyrics for movie themes ("Picnic," "Bell, Book and Candle"); and he started a Sunday-night variety hour, "The Steve Allen Show." By then he was so busy he let Ernie Kovacs host...
...miniatures of their love ballad singing adult counterparts, pre-teen acts such as BreZe and Aaron Carter offer its listeners cheese-fried pop music that is thoroughly ridden with the fingerprints of a teen marketing-machine. Highly fabricated and mechanically produced with a pervasive blend of Backstreet Bop and Color Me Badd hip-hop doo-wop, pre-teen pop follows closely the recipes for commercialized music and suceeds marvelously at achieving lyrical triviality...
...High." The first is a Veronica number called "Why Don't They Let Us Fall In Love." Phil opens with a seismic riff - a sax line of tectonic dimension, especially on crankin? speakers - but the song's just starting, and the second time through he adds the backup vocals: "Bop bop bop, bop bop ba-dah-dah dah-dah..." I'm sitting on that couch in the dark, my next-door neighbor is pounding on the wall, and I can't get up to turn it down! I am not prepared for this - I haven't even heard the chorus...
...yeah yeah..." My reaction to this kind of lyric, in this kind of setting, is what finally convinces me that - like Brian Wilson - "I just wasn't made for these times". I mean, I'm in tears, I'm a grown man and moved to tears by this teeny-bop concoction, this early '60s equivalent of Britney Spears. (Phil called them "little symphonies for the kids.") But it's not Britney Spears - it's better. It gets to me. It defeats the cynic within, dismantles the censoring mechanism, and bypasses the cool-meter. I achieve the actual, never-articulated goal...
More successful fan participation came in the form of the Fuckheads, a group haphazardly selected from the crowd to play all the instruments on a cover of the Ramones' "Blitzkrieg Bop." After a surprisingly well-played effort, the band gave props by joking, "That was a mistake. We're probably...