Word: lovin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...indeed have blue eyes, but you could have sat anyplace in the Back Bay Theatre and figured out that the Righteous Brothers have about as much soul as Laurence Welk. And this is something not to be realized lightly by one who had devoutly kept "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" on her all-time-great list despite the disdain of more sophisticated patrons...
...anything to be held against a rock 'n' roll star, but from the tops of their ducktail haircuts to the tips of their white buck loafers, these two look worse than any pair since the Everly Brothers. Bobby -- the little blond one who does that fantastic third "baby" in "Lovin' Feeling" -- kept calling tall dark Bill "eel" and "snake." The names are apt, but his voice gives you a few minutes when -- if you close your eyes or otherwise block out his perpetual smirk -- all can be forgiven. It is amazingly deep and seems to come from nowhere; the echo...
...make a mockery of whatever soul was supposed to go along with the blue eyes. They never sang a song straight, except for Hatfield's "Unchained Melody," which he only got to after a five-minute build-up of bad jokes. At one of the emotional moments of "Lovin' Feeling" Hatfield suddenly stopped singing and smirked, "Ooo, let me outta here." And in "Soul and Inspiration," in any case an inferior imitation of the first song, Hafiteld stopped before he came to the spoken "baby I can't make it without you" section and quipped, "Okay, bring out the Oscar...
Noticeably absent from their repertoire were their more recent songs like "He" and "Go Ahead and Cry," no doubt because it would have cost too much to fly in from Southern California the choir that accompanies them on those efforts. In fact, they have never had another song like "Lovin' Feeling." It was written by Phil Spector when the pair were recording for Philles. Since then they have worked for both Verve and Moonglow with a steady increase of choir music and cacaphony; if they haven't had a real hit for six months it's hardly surprising. Their latest...
...self-image: "A poet with a one-man band." "I have my bo--oks/And my po--e--try to protect me, he says. Mick Jagger write a 7-stress line Off My Cloud" and resuscitates the blues poetry of Sam Cooke, Otis Red Dog Herskovitz. The Lovin' Spoonful "jump-cut" provocatively among narratives, and interrogatives; such lively imagination no-one demanded or would have appreciated a few years ago. One can see Dylan's influence sifted down to the bottom of the heap when a dullard like P.F. Sloane ("Eve of Destruction") manages a rime as interest...