Word: etta
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...professor’s older brother Clement, a former secret service bodyguard for Robert F. Kennedy ’48 and George H.W. Bush, arrived at the afternoon luncheon with his fiancée of ten years, Etta Dixon, who pointed out that “Alvin had lost weight” as the professor passed by her table with his wife...
...voice provides more of an instrumental effect than actual words, and the song is a blithe and ethereal entity among the harsher staccatos of the rest of the album. Billotte also saves two of the album’s other great songs, covers of Etta James’ “I’ll Dry My Tears,” and LaVern Baker’s “Bumblebee.” Soul covers aren’t usually normal fodder for indie garage bands, but the Casual Dots tackle these with grace and panache, especially...
...song feels like a gospel ballad. Never mind that Bacharach - who conducted the orchestra - inserts one of his signature flugelhorn solos into the bridge; Raindrops is Isley's song now. Cyndi Lauper doesn't have Isley's voice - or anybody's voice - and the thought of her attacking the Etta James classic At Last (it's like Hamlet's "To be or not to be" speech for chanteuses) at first seems like a profoundly bad idea. But throughout her standards album, also titled At Last, Lauper embraces her own fragility. She's not strong on the high notes of Walk...
...might find a way to integrate vulnerability and world domination, Twain thinks for a moment. "I've got dreams," she says. "I'd like to do a duet album with all of my favorite artists--Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Stevie Wonder, Bonnie Raitt, Karen Carpenter if she were alive, Etta James." Twain is laughing now. "These are impossibilities, but I'd love it. And I would want it to be originals. What would be really fantastic would be to write songs with all those people. That would be a dream album for me. One dream album...
Watkins performed Etta James’ 1960 hit “At Last” to a pre-recorded accompaniment. The boisterous audience fell completely silent during many of the song’s lyrical passages and often applauded her stylized cadences...