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...OKAY? (Chrysalis). In the two years since his group's groundbreaking album What Up, Dog?, Don Was has become a hotshot producer. But he still knows how to find a groove. The latest offering borrows its funk from James Brown, its harmonies from the Temptations, a heaping of wit from Zappa, and makes it all cook...
...heft of this gorgeous Broadway review, but LaVern Baker (also heard on the Dick Tracy score) gets the same laughs and is, if anything, torchier. In other regards this celebration of blues song and tap dance is better than ever: the all-black cast has infused a newfound Harlem funk into the Busby Berkeleyesque glamour...
Heard that bouncy Wilson Phillips sound on the radio? Remember the way cool sound track from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? How about the fresh funk of Technotronic, the band that opened for Madonna on her recent concert tour? As it happens, all this music is on the SBK label. How's that...
...forget Taylor Dayne, who looks like Kim Basinger and has all the funk of Batman's butler Alfred. Not to mention -- well, perhaps just mention -- Jane Child, Lisa Stansfield and Alannah Myles, and even Basia, who brings an East European flavor to all this booty shaking...
Suddenly Japan is caught in a powerful downdraft of pessimism. A vexing combination of tightening financial conditions, trade tension with the U.S. and political weakness at the top has sent Tokyo's financial markets into a funk. The slide is threatening to choke the country's economic growth and sap the ebullient confidence that has filled Japanese investors and businessmen in recent years. "The pendulum has once again swung in Japan," says Richard Koo, a senior economist at the Nomura Research Institute. "It's now over to the doom-and-gloom side, when objectively speaking, Japanese companies remain the strongest...