Word: choruses
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...notion of releasing a jazzy, largely instrumental number in two parts; the year before, drummer Cozy Cole enjoyed a two-sided hit with ?Topsy.? What was unusual was the four-part structure: three verses of piano, then four verses of blues patter, then the ?What?d I say? chorus, and finally two minutes of boy-call-and-girl-response foreplay leading to the orgasm of the ?What?d I say? chorus augmented by horns and the Raelets. After five minutes, what?d you say? Whew...
...minstrel number) in 1911, Charles made it a black song; he transformed this antique march into a big-band raver. The band (Burns did the brassy, bluesy charts) plays the melody and Charles comes in an antiphonal bar later, bleating "Come on an' hear!" By the end of the chorus he's quoting his own "This Little Girl of Mine" and has the Raelets chirping a descending, exultant "Zander ragtime band!" Great music...
...Cambridge Community Chorus drew smiles and got some in the chamber to sing along to their rendition of the Beatles’ “Can’t Buy Me Love...
...spot" over a lush, string-heavy track that is no less great for sounding as if it had been ripped off from Dr. Dre's studio. If the lyrics don't provide sufficient notice that subtlety is not Mis-Teeq's MO, then the blaring siren in the chorus should do the trick...
...shoe-gazing white-boy rock bands from England, melancholy isn't a pose so much as a pleasant vacation from despondency. That said, this brooding, expansive, 6-min. end-of-summer anthem has a chorus with a hint of optimism--"Light up, light up, as if you have a choice/Even if you cannot hear my voice/I'll be right beside you dear"--as well as the requisite lyric about long goodbyes and a soaring vocal by singer Gary Lightbody. It's also being pushed heavily by iTunes (it's currently the site's free download of the week) and record...