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"What?d I Say" was Charles? biggest hit at Atlantic -the company must have issued three or four versions of the song, including on an album called "Do the Twist With Ray Charles" -and the conclusion of his career segue from rhythm to rock. But he was just getting started...
Arriving in New York, they brought Gardner and one of the other Ravens east, hired two other singers and dubbed the new assembly The Coasters. Thus was born not just a group but a genre. It was a wrinkle on the radio playlet: the two-minute rock musical comedy. "Searchin...
Leiber?s parodies - "aural cartoons," Donald Clarke calls them - were also social criticism; they sounded black but could apply to alienated whites too. Stoller?s uptempo bluesy charts (usually 12-bar blues) found the ideal blend of honking sax solos by King Curtis and the singers, who had distinct comic...
JetBlue's marketing is another radical departure. The carrier aims its product at the frugal yet style-conscious consumer. "We want that 'aspirational' audience," says Gareth Edmondson-Jones, the airline's spokesman and one of many employees who came from Virgin Atlantic. "We see our customers as the same ones...
COLIN FIRTH, co-star of Bridget Jones's Diary Oscar Wilde by RICHARD ELLMANN "Brilliant. It's got me wanting to convert my daily banalities into epigrams."