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Long before Elvis Costello was singing "Allison," Graham Parker--one of Costello's vocal influences--was making rock 'n' roll albums. His songs, on this and previous LPs, are cynical commentary on love, life and relationships. Acoustic, layered production adds intimacy to the music on Burning Questions. "Release Me" and "Mr. Tender" are the record's finest...
...place in this collection. Yet its presence would have set up a handy symbolic resonance. Tony Bennett, one of the supreme purveyors of popular song, here assembles 24 tunes associated with, and made popular by, Sinatra, ory days: the big-band beginnings, the series of alternately bleak ) and swinging LPs like In the Wee Small Hours and A Swingin' Affair -- concept albums before anyone had cooked up the phrase -- that carried Sinatra triumphantly through the 1950s to the pinnacle of his craft. Bennett, at this time, was enjoying significant success on his own, and though his celebrity missed the mythic...
...Music Man was No. 1; in 1960, The Sound of Music; in 1961, Camelot. Even in 1964, the year the Beatles cued kids to buy their pop in long form as well as in singles, Hello, Dolly! was the No. 3 seller. Hair topped all 1969 LPs; the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice Jesus Christ Superstar (technically not an original cast album, since the piece was recorded before it was staged) was No. 1 in 1971. And that was it. No show, including the later Lloyd Webber perennials, has since come near the top of the U.S. pops...
...century was recorded in the 1920s and '30s by the likes of King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton and Bix Beiderbecke. Trouble is, the 78 r.p.m.s they left behind give only a scratchy approximation of what their bands sounded like. Much of this classic material was reissued on LPs, but the technology used to reduce the surface noise often left the instruments sounding dead and flat. Now the advent of the CD has spawned another prodigious outpouring of reissues. And finally someone has had the time, affection and sheer wizardry to bring this great music alive...
...dead white males . . . And some live ones: Mark Spitz and Bjorn Borg hoped to relive their heydays but found it takes more than high self-esteem to be a world-class athlete . . . The 1970s were the years that taste forgot. Why celebrate platform shoes and Partridge Family LPs? Keep them in the attic where they belong...