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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Whitney Houston didn't want to sing on the sound track of Waiting to Exhale. But that was before singer-songwriter-producer Kenneth ("Babyface") Edmonds got to her. The way Houston recalls it, Edmonds told her, "I just want you to hear this one song. If you like it, you...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: A HITMAKER AND A GENTLEMAN | 11/11/1996 | See Source »

Plumtree's music, like Anderson's, is not burdened by deep meaning or heavy handed emotions. These music makers instead strive to set free a powerful melody and let it work its magic. Their sophomore production and first full-length record, Mass Teen Fainting, is a blend of potent songs...

Author: By Luke Z. Fenchel, | Title: Plumtree Is Happy Music | 10/31/1996 | See Source »

They linger in the middle-age memory like invisible friends from childhood--a wisp of melody, an easy rhythm, a naive lyric that sounded like poetry then and rings with poignance today. You hear the old pop songs, and suddenly it's 1960; you are yanked back to the spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: '60S GOING ON '90S | 10/7/1996 | See Source »

Instead of sitting in the Brill Building, the writers worked via fax and voice mail. Yet, Bacharach says, the aim is the same: "Despite the machinery, the finesse of modern record making, underneath it all, there has to be a yearning for a melody. You still need something to whistle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: '60S GOING ON '90S | 10/7/1996 | See Source »

Since the German musical scale contains an "H" (their "H" is our "B" and their "B" is our "B-flat"), Bach's name spells out a chromatic and eerie four-note melody. According to his son, at the point in the "Art of the Fugue" when Bach brought in that...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Summer Offers Time for Pleasure Reading | 7/16/1996 | See Source »

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