Word: chordings
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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 dynamite cover of Sy Oliver?s ?Yes Indeed.? Listeners 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...
...movie is perhaps more powerful because of the chord it struck with its viewers from the South Asian diaspora...
Dormann's breath-of-fresh-air approach continued with a companywide email urging staff members to stop making PowerPoint presentations for one another. "Consider this," he wrote. "Somewhere among the dazzling presentation techniques ... I sense a creeping loss of substance." That struck a chord. "Bravo!!! I am so tired of executives jamming phony presentations down my throat," a U.S. regional manager e-mailed back...
DIED. CLAUDE (FIDDLER) WILLIAMS, 96, Count Basie's first recorded guitarist and a master of the jazz violin; in Kansas City, Mo. Born in Oklahoma, he supposedly helped teach a young Charlie Parker how to switch from one chord to another. He toured into his 90s and played at President Bill Clinton's second Inauguration...
...uprising in response to a warrant for his arrest. Confrontation at Najaf carries the risk of a wider Shiite uprising against the U.S. forces. Although Moqtada Sadr does not represent a majority of Shiites and is loathed by the clerical establishment, his path of confrontation has struck a chord among significant sections of the Shiite urban poor. Even among his detractors in the clergy, it's not clear that hostility towards Moqtada is greater than antipathy towards the Coalition. The moderate leadership around Sistani wants Moqtada handled with kid gloves - and more importantly, it wants its own grievances with...