Word: intros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their own security was being settled over their heads and perhaps even bargained away. This time the U.S. will still do the bargaining, but will share the decision making with its European allies for the first time. For the U.S. as well as for Western Europe, this change will intro duce a whole new era of strategic and political cooperation...
...musical past, Savannah synthesizes the sounds of yesterday-Count Basic, Hoagy Carmichael, Carmen Miranda-with its own swank brand of soul. Strains of Whispering (1920) are grafted onto Cherchez la Femme, a disco number bumping along to Mickey Sevilla's sassy drumbeat. A lilting intro evoking Glenn Miller evolves into the hustle smash I'll Play the Fool...
JUST BEFORE his first appearance on stage, Lenny Bruce threw up three times. A few minutes later the stand-in master of ceremonies at the Victory Club in Brooklyn heard the strains of his intro music and found himself standing in his one-button, bar-mitzvah blue suit, holding a microphone...
...solo in "Bass Folk Song," and all his work on acoustic bass. Clarke plays bass as an equal member, not as a supporter. He attacks a solo from the viewpoint of a lead instrument, rather than expanding techniques of support. And there was Bill Connors's nice classically acoustic intro to "Sometime...
...ALBUM'S TRIUMPH is "Something So Right," which may be Simon's purest love song. Everything about the song is right. The acoustic intro mourns and whines, the rest of the band tumbles beautifully into the middle of the chorus, there is an interaction between acoustic and electric bass subtle enough to be missed. The electric piano vibrates while the acoustic piano skips lightly on the last chorus and ascends over the final progression, giving way to two short flute phrases belying the final fade. The lyrics are sensitive, personal, self-deprecating. Easily Simon's most beautiful effort...