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Word: farfisa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fleshtones also pull some catchy melodies out of their musical bag. "Deep in My Heart," with its ubiquitous "cheesy" Farfisa and Zaremba's mock crooning matches Romans Gods's "Hope Come Back" for hook quotient, while the mockingly stupid "Screamin Skull" competes with the Cramps' "Human Fly" for pure schlock brilliance...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: The Real Thing | 7/6/1983 | See Source »

...Life Is Good, Newman slings an arm over the shoulder of his "very good friend . . . Mr. Bruce Springsteen." In Take Me Back, a lively rave-up propelled by a roadhouse-style Farfisa organ, he chronicles how a life of early promise guttered and ended "by this dirty old airport/ In this greasy little shack." Randy Newman may live far from that kind of address-in Santa Monica, Calif., in fact, with a wife and three sons-but his imagination still dwells in the long shadows. Says his brother Alan: "Randy looks at the world from the underside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Smiler with a Knife | 2/14/1983 | See Source »

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