Word: hounding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hound Dogl They wrote...
...uncanny gift for crossing musical bloodlines. Both loved black rhythm-and-blues music, and could write it with such glancing wit and thorough funk that their songs sounded fresh off the streets. It is worth keeping in mind that at the time of the first major Leiber-Stoller hit, Hound Dog, released by Willie Mae ("Big Mama") Thornton in 1953, pop music had its own kind of enforced segregation. The sudden, seismic synthesis of mainstream pop and down-home rhythm and blues was performed by Elvis Presley, who took R&B, fused it with a little country raunch and came...
SOMEHOW rock'n roll got old. It didn't seem possible that a year had passed since Elvis died--more than 20 years since he cut "Hound Dog," "All Shook Up," "Jailhouse Rock," and "Don't Be Cruel." But it was true, and that was how I came to be riding all night from Connecticut down to Tennessee with a busload of middle-aged women hell-bent on reaching the graveside of their dead king on the first anniversary of his death. That was how I came to meet Janey Cray, who swooned over Elvis when she was young...
Billy Graham has always endeavored to be hound's-tooth clean about money. Early in his career he went on straight salary, * spurning the unaudited "love offerings" that used to provide income for traveling evangelists. But the Graham operation is so large and visible that there has always been intense curiosity about its finances. Lately that curiosity has deepened into outright suspicion, and to clear the air Graham's Minneapolis headquarters has issued its first full public report on finances...
With success come all the pressures that long have been part of men's sports. The new emphasis on winning?and luring customers through the turnstiles?has produced a familiar syndrome of corruption. College recruiters, though technically barred from sweet-talking hot prospects, have nonetheless found ways to hound young, often unsophisticated athletes. Tales of under-the-table payments and inducements?a new car or postschool job?have begun to circulate. The A.I.A.W. has no full-time enforcement unit to oversee violations, subscribing instead to the credo that conscience is more powerful than compulsion. "We are built upon self-policing...