Word: moonglows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...starts slowly, as a stoned-steady guitar beat reverberating through an echo chamber accompanies the cool voices that weave in and out. "My body is walking in space/ My soul is in orbit with God, face to face," the eerie voices tell us, and we can believe in their moonglow-bathed hallucinations. But no sooner is the mood established, than composer Galt Mac Dermot and lyricists Gerome Ragni and James Rado destroy it by tipping their hats to the Times Square crowd. All of a sudden the chorus hippies are yelling out a catalogue of hallucinatory cliches ("Red Light! White...
...slickly packaged Broadway sentimentality, shrewdly calculated to flatter middleaged, middle-class couples into thinking that their cup is brimming with sunshine and moonglow. The show becomes palatable for two surpassingly good reasons-Mary Martin and Robert Preston. They are charmers of seismic force and theatrical perfectionists to the fraction of a nuance. They complement each other's temperaments. Preston hisses energy. He is as restless and agile as a panther. There is no repose in him, and the world is a woman to be won. Mary Martin exists to be wooed. She focuses light, as a magnifying glass brings...
...much to fly in from Southern California the choir that accompanies them on those efforts. In fact, they have never had another song like "Lovin' Feeling." It was written by Phil Spector when the pair were recording for Philles. Since then they have worked for both Verve and Moonglow with a steady increase of choir music and cacaphony; if they haven't had a real hit for six months it's hardly surprising. Their latest release, "On This Side of Goodbye," is back in the old style, but is just another dull reworking...
Dapper and erect at 58, Hawkins dominates the bandstand. Body swaying slightly, he shuts his eyes as he uncoils his long, looping solos with their artfully building figurations, their insistently driving rhythms, their soaring air of abandon. In such numbers as Groovin' or Moonglow, Hawkins' sax capers in a loose-jointed way that mirrors the musician's pleasure; in Think Deep, say, or When Day Is Done, the style remains as virile as ever, but the tone becomes even warmer and more open-throated-mellow in a manner that Saxophone Inventor Adolphe Sax (1814-94) would never...