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Dick Bass, a Texan who salts his speech with darlin' and dadgum, was 51 years old and clueless about expedition climbing when he decided to summit Mount McKinley in 1981. Bass, the owner of Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort in Utah, had no idea McKinley was among the hardest U.S. climbs. He made the decision to brave the elements after a particularly tough employee pronounced that he would never cut it on the mountain. Bass vowed to prove her wrong. "I didn't even know how to put a tent up," he says. But off he trudged, defiantly...
...Charles's "Talkin' 'Bout You," the Crickets' "That'll Be the Day," Little Richard's "Good Golly Miss Molly," the Coasters' "Searchin'," Buddy Knox's "Party Doll," Ricky Nelson's "Be Bop Baby," Fats Domino's "I'm Walkin'," the Everly Brothers' "Bye Bye Love," the Diamonds' "Little Darlin'," the Dell Vikings' "Come Go with Me" and Chuck Berry's "School Days." Then they'd slow down for some smooth churning to ballads like "Long Lonely Nights," "Love Letters in the Sand," "Loving You," "A White Sport Coat" and (the season's top-selling song, I'm chagrined...
...handsome relative of teen throb James Darren. But Bobby had two things they didn?t: a facility for songwriting and the old-fashioned ambition to go legit. The first hint of Darin?s staying power was "Dream Lover," a lovely potpourri of pop modes: the plinking rhythm of "Little Darlin?" (done pizzicato by violins here), the release from "This Little Girl of Mine" and a Don Costa-like mixed chorus, with women singing the heavenly-choir "ooo"s and men answering this siren call with a goofy but musically beguiling "wadda-wadda." Darin?s vocal is much more assured...
...where the media is set up, I see a familiar face under siege from some paparazzi. It is the delightful Bridget Fonda. She is wearing a flesh-colored silky dress and is gamely responding to all the requests from this very motley crew. "Turn left Bridget!" "Look this way, darlin'." Then it turns ugly. A photographer decides that he would like his picture taken with Fonda. She politely accedes to his request. Pretty soon all the snappers want their 1/30th of a second with her. This is fan behavior, quite inappropriate for professional photographers. I gaze around and see that...
...standing out is a function of the song at hand - there's no faulting Patty Loveless and Dwight Yoakam, but their selections are less memorable than "Blue Night" (Mary Chapin Carpenter), "On the Old Kentucky Shore" (Joan Osborne & Ricky Skaggs) and especially Dolly Parton's rendering of "Cry, Cry Darlin'," a standout by any standard...