Word: echo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wounded knowledge of the "world full of grey" is the source of Brown's idiom-a varied and appealing bouquet of jazz, folk music and the blues. He snaps from one mood to the next with commanding effect, leading his audience through the street scenes that echo in his music. With porkpie hat and elbows locked to his hips in the pose of the cool twist, he sings a celebration of the street-corner king. The song ends with a spin, a pause, and Brown turns back to his listeners-a mask of pain that conjures up the setting...
...lack of electronic amplification and echo is most distressingly obvious in the case of the soloist, Mr. Cerf. Cerf displays a rather good, raw, voice. That is, he has no voice at all, just a rasping, unmusical tone that occasionally stays on pitch. Such a voice is perfect for rock, if it is doctored with numerous tubes. In its natural, undoctored self it is merely sad and less...
...Harvard Coop" has possibilities, but they are not explored. The words don't make much sense, but rock 'n roll that is often a virtue. Throughout the song we hear of the wonders of sets of "monopoly, opolyopoly" and "refund checks a-heck heck." An echo chamber, a good drummer, a bridge tune, and slightly less repetition would have helped immensely. Still, it is possible that the does capture the atmosphere of favorite cooperative store, and that is important. For if rock 'n roll has value, it is in its ability to the flavor of contemporary life...
...when the townspeople of the north German port of Cuxhaven were startled from their sleep by an eerie echo of the past: the wail of air-raid sirens. The howling horns, however, did not signal an air attack but the breeching of the town's dikes by one of the worst storms of the century...
Upside Down. In Algeria, an S.A.O. detachment took over the newspaper office of L'Echo d'Oran, put out 20,000 copies of an edition with a huge picture of the S.A.O. chief, ex-General Raoul Salan, and a fiery S.A.O. communiqué, which in their haste they printed upside down. S.A.O. gunmen murdered Commandant Andre Boulle, chief of gendarmerie at Sidi-bel-Abbas, just as he was about to take a plane to Paris to be commended for exceptional service. As the steamer Ville de Bordeaux was about to cast off from Bone harbor bound for France...