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Some people will remember Motown. Some people still sing it. Dionne Warwick will present her own watered-down version sometime in the distant future when the snow may be just a memory. It's a benefit for the Children's Hospital, so if you have a decent bone in your body, love kids and/or Motown, put April 8 on your calendar, if it's not already there...
...overqualified for life as we know it."), but the kid knows how to play off the audience like the great comic actors. Hanes is raw material, and when he goes into the Elvis-takeoff tune "Stud" (my favorite song in the show, complete with background choreograpy in the finest Motown tradition), you'll know he doesn't spend his Saturday nights watching "Mannix...
...same delights as Some Girls: the sinuous harmonica of the previously anonymous Sugar Blue, a rejuvenated Mick Jagger, and an astounding Charlie Watts, the once and future King of the Skins. Characterized by the savage disco backbeat that marked the Some Girls dancing cuts and a tongue-in-cheek Motown chorus, the song also echoes the Goat's Head Soup album, particularly "Dancing with Mr. D." The theme, however, is unmistakably Some Girls--Bianca in particular...
...sharp, brassy voice in a heavily throaty verse that rises to an upbeat, bold chorus. The bright, '70s rocker contrasts strongly to "Oooh Baby Baby," a mellow Smokey Robinson tune in which Ronstadt uses two male backup vocalists who add a sweet falsetto giving the song a Motown-like sound. The song works quite well; Ronstadt's voice makes her version of the song just different enough from the original...
...short-time things looked good for the Sox. They trailed the Tigers only 1-0 while the first-place Yankees looked as though they'd lose both ends of a double-header to the lowly Toronto Blue Jays. The roof collapsed in Motown, however, when the Tigers exploded for 11 more runs to put the game out of reach for the locals, and the Bronx Bombers rallied in Toronto to salvage their nightcap...