Word: mama
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mama may have, Papa may have...
Well the runway lies ahead like a great false dawn, Fat lady, big mama, Missy Bimbo sits in her chair and yawns, And the man-beast lies in his cage sniffin 'popcorn And the midget licks his fingers and suffers Missy Bimbo's scorn Circus town's been born...
...tell me, what else is there left for us to do. You tell me and I'll do it. You show me where I can go to spin the world around before it gets too late for someone like Mama living fifty years just to die on 126th Street! You tell me of a place where there are no old crippled vaudeville...
...that, that is, unless you listen to the words. Newman is not exactly the piano player Charles is, and the blues he sings are a white man's blues. But Newman is probably the most novel and perhaps the most intelligent lyricist cutting records today. Occasional songs, such as "Mama Told Me Not to Come," have been popularized in dessicated AM hits by other performers. But nothing is like listening to this wit and wisdom in the original. Anyone who can sing "Cleveland, city of magic..." has got to have imagination. Sunday, February 24 at The Performance Center...
...takes all this real freak-show type stuff into the dressing room and spends about a half hour in there, and I'm getting ready to go in because for all I know she's shooting up or something. And then she walks out looking like this crazy turkey mama--feather boas on her arms and she's wrapped an Indian shawl around her for a skirt, and she's braided beads into her hair and painted her face in green and white diamonds. And then she just struts around for a while, singing to herself like she's trying...