Word: mama
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...folks in front of us are Southern and could have stepped right out of a Marlboro ad; they heckle like pros, and poor Anaheim outfielder Tim Salmon is in just the right spot to hear them talk about his mama. The guys on either side of me decide to join in. “Hey, Salmon, your mom called!” they bellow in unison. “She said you suck...
...same week my son started calling me mama, he started calling my sister-in-law Mimi. Mimi--or Mary, as others know her--is my partner's sister. She lives just two blocks from us, and in a typical week she's over at our place six or seven times. My son gets excited when he hears her coming up the stairs. When he wants to dance, he knows she's going to put De La Soul's hip-hop in the CD player. She lets him eat strawberries before he finishes his meat. She makes his stuffed animals talk...
...back to basics -the 12-bar blues -in a song so uptempo and alluring, and so memorable, that it serves as the title for Ertegun?s gigantic memoir book: "What?d I Say." There was nothing revolutionary in the lyric, except its daring to be loose ("Hey, mama, doncha treat me wrong/ Come and love your daddy all night long," etc.). Nor was the notion of releasing a jazzy, largely instrumental number in two parts; the year before, Cozy Cole (whose drumming career had stretched from Jelly Roll Morton to Charlie Parker, and who had recorded a Leiber-Stoller number...
...time they arrived at Atlantic, L&S had already written songs that would be revived as monster hits in the rock era. Wilbert Harrison had a #1 hit with "Kansas City" in 1959, seven years after Little Willie Littlefield recorded it as "K.C. Lovin?." "Hound Dog," written for Big Mama Thornton, and "Love Me," for Willy and Ruth, were covered by Elvis Presley (whose Sun contract Ertegun had tried to buy, in 1955, for $25,000; RCA, which outbid him by $20,000, got a quick and lasting return on its investment). And somewhere beyond the sea, Edith Piaf would...
...signora-goosing amnesty program b) they needed space for protesters c) Prime Minister candidates needed time to campaign d) the stench of imprisoned Italian men--mama...