Word: ding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some of his songs, like "Johnny B. Goode," are to rock concerts what "The Star Spangled Banner" is to baseball games. His shows these days are full of a raunchy, good-natured obsession with sex, as shown in that most frequent target of AM radio censoring bleeps, "My Ding-a-Ling." The James Montgomery Band, playing with Berry, is tight, bluesy, and always expected to burst into national prominence. For the moment they're still relatively unknown, but they could well be the best band in Boston, better than J. Geils...
...Ding him: swing sneakily...
Baker describes the closing series of songs in the Sha concert as an example of keeping an audience up: "We go from 'Duke of Earl' to 'Rama Lama Ding Dong' to 'At the Hop'--just bam bam bam. We're out of there. Come back on for 'Rock and Roll Is Here to Stay.' Come back on--our encores are all up tempo until we've got them standing on their feet. And then we just go--bam--and let them down with "Lovers Never Say Goodbye' and they know it's over. It's like a play or anything...
...hard core rock-and-roll fan's love for Sha Na Na. Starting slowly with "Duke of Earl," the band increases the tempo and intensity of its performance with each succeeding song gently arousing the audience. With a passionate frenzy the group rocks through "Tossin' and Turnin," "Rama Lama Ding Dong," and the show-ending "At the Hop" to bring the audience to a breathless peak of excitement...
...such amorphous ones as "to get more OK," "to be able to give myself to others" or "to exercise more control over my Parent." One far-out leader shouts, "You're OK!" to his groups, and another asks members to clasp hands in a circle dance while singing Ding, Dong, the Witch Is Dead. Harris, who now does more teaching and training than therapy, usually begins his lectures with a few jokes to loosen things up. Sometimes he asks a listener to come forward and stand at the foot of the speaker's platform, thus demonstrating what...