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...What'll I Do?", 1924. This ballad of love and longing has a clever bridge that repeats, then elaborates on the chorus; the entire song rises and falls with the mood (first mopey, then insistently desperate) of a lovelorn swain. It was a #1 hit for Paul Whiteman and had five other top-12 renditions in 1924. Twenty-four years later the song went to #22 for Nat Cole and #23 for Frank Sinatra. It was also a minor charter for Johnny Tillotson in 1962 - 38 years later...
...Harvard has tied Michigan, a team that made the Frozen Four last season and has a streak of eleven consecutive NCAA appearances. I half expect the Big Red faithful to don tweed jackets and argyle socks before singing a rousing chorus of "Fair Harvard" in between bites of "chowdah...
...sample that finds Son Doobie’s jarring and aggressive voice a welcome foil to the usually subdued tones of the Swollen duo. While the track is pleasing to the ear, it again slips into a well-traveled rap niche: violence. Gun-shot blasts are sampled into the chorus where Son Doobie shouts, “Y’all can’t stop Swollen Members—BLAM-BLAM...
...speaking of grimaces, when the townspeople first boo Point and Elsie, check out for the sneer of chorus member Jim L. Maltese...
...right from the get-go, Zahr conveys a depth of emotion not fully suggested by the script. Though his stage direction after the scene is simply to step aside as the chorus moves in, Zahr deftly picks up on all the nuances in the tragi-comic libretto and goes on gesturing and mumbling to himself, trying to justify his action...