Word: lovelornness
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...Nelson previously recorded on her country album; a waltz, "Finding Her": and a couple of imitation gospel numbers. "I'll Be Long Gone" and "Sweet Release," the latter probably the best cut on the record. With one or two exceptions, all the material is in a down and out, lovelorn vein, and will be especially appealing to those of you who dig self pity music...
Taylor's voice is mercifully free of the whiny self-pity that haunts most singers of lovelorn pop lyrics. Even his most self-revealing effort. Knocking 'Round the Zoo, which tells what it was like in a mental hospital, where James spent nine months, comes out heavily armed with witty, riffy musical irony?at least until the end, when Taylor tacks a chilling descant of bedlamite sounds onto the following stanza...
...well off ignoring the incomprehensible Popish Plot and other games of succession to concentrate on the sexual politics and the wigs-off look at the life-style of the 17th and 18th century British court. It is perfectly clear, for instance, why Churchill came home from Continental wars so lovelorn that he dove into bed with Sarah without taking time to remove his spurs...
...make emotion travel down a string!" The mannerisms of voice and style and the personalities of the five Standwells are all clearly delineated. Their individual quirks of voice, accent and mannerism permeate whatever characters they portray. Whether portraying a cocotte in a worldly Molnar one-act or chanting a lovelorn ballad in a piece by Jane and Paul Bowles, nobody can flounce quite like Mile. Garonce. Isabelle's gentility never wavers-not even when Sicnarf tries to teach her to play a boogie-woogie bass at a family musicale or when someone makes an unsettling remark about...
...while, the singers as well as the lyrics were changed. For every funky performer like Chuck Berry, there were a dozen droopy-eyed, ducktailed teen-idol types like Bobby Rydell, Frankie Avalon, Fabian and even Tab Hunter, all of whom threatened to turn rock into lachrymose lullabies for lovelorn girls. It was British groups like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, with their heavy and acknowledged debt to American soul and blues, who revitalized rock by getting back to its roots...