Word: lymon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dutton is a sharp contrast not only to Berneice's steadiness but also to the quietness of Carl Gordon's performance as Doaker. The character that makes the best foil for Boy Wille's out-there exuberance is his handsome friend Lymon, played with a funny mix of innocence and debonair grace by Rocky Carroll...
...Charles, Little Richard, Chuck Berry and Frankie Lymon were some of his contemporaries, but the singer who really knocked Jackie Wilson out was Al Jolson. Jackson may dance like Baryshnikov straddling a jackhammer, move like a street blood steeped in Astaire and t'ai chi, sing like an angel on a soul-food bender, but a fair portion of his personal taste and his musical inspiration comes from the sort of glitzy places where soul seldom strays. One of his favorite things is My Favorite Things, sung by Julie Andrews, raindrops on roses, warm woolen mittens and all. He loves...
...which sounded so heartfelt on last year's Escape Artist; the new version is like hearing 101 strings playing the Who's "My Generation." And "96 Tears" does not belong on another Garland Jeffreys album. He's been in the business for a decade, proclaims his allegiance to Frankie Lymon, so why doesn't he play something else to show...
...mother playing Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Billie Holiday and the Mills Brothers, and he remembers, too, singing along with those old 78s by the time he was four. As he got older, he started listening to rhythm and blues: Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson and, most of all, Frankie Lymon, whose high-flying vibrato could hang in the air like a white silk scarf. Music eased the loneliness. It was a neighbor, however, a painter who could talk knowledgeably about art and museums, who showed Jeffreys...
...cool inflections of his passion, however, keep the songs strong and upright, buttressed both by a flair for elegant concert showmanship and a voice that sounds like Frankie Lymon with a college education...