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...Charles? edge toward popularity in the late ?50s coincided with a shift from the 12-bar format to pop?s favorite descending chord pattern (C, C7, F, F-minor) in the choruses of "Ain?t That Love," "Swanee River Rock" and "That?s Enough" and the release of "This Little Girl of Mine" and his sensaysh cover of Sy Oliver?s "Yes Indeed." We came to expect the revival-show tambourine (rattled by co-producer Jerry Wexler on some sides), the backing girl group (the Cookies, later known as the Raelettes) offer response to his call, the bluesy-jazzy...
...weirdest records: a standard doo-wop lament that has four violins and a cello sawing away (a jarring innovation back then) and, like a distant war drum, a timpani that no one knew how to tune and so hits one note no matter what the chord change. When Wexler first heard this bizarre melange, he was more than disappointed - he was furious. "It sounds like three stations playing at the time coming through on one very bad car radio," he fumed, insisting that the number be junked. Ertegun overruled him, and "There Goes My Baby" was a top-five...
...never going to shake the conviction of the international community that had established the court precisely so that the men and women responsible for the Balkan bloodletting of the 1990s would be personally held to account. Back home in Yugoslavia, though, Milosevic's antics may yet strike a chord...
...friends call him, to play a C-major triad at the beginning of his first lesson. Then he asked him the mysteriously simple question, “What is that?” Without missing a beat, Kraft replied, “That’s the chord, that’s the chord you hear out in the world, out in nature...
...It’s been evolving. It used to be that either Ryan or I would come in with a chord progression or melody, and then we would just flesh it out, changing it, adding new melodies. But now, for the next record, we have a regular rehearsal space we go to every day when we’re not on the road. We go there and just spontaneously play, and whatever happens happens. Ryan writes all the lyrics, and it’s something I really admire him for, because it’s tough to write lyrics that...