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DIED. ALISON STEELE, 58, disc jockey; of cancer; in New York City. "Come fly with me" was Steele's classic invitation, first sighed in the '60s in a voice marinated in smoke and sophistication--a suggestion so appealing to New York insomniacs that the "Nightbird" became one of the first women in the country to work as a rock 'n' roll deejay. She was also the first female recipient of Billboard's "FM Personality of the Year" and an inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...
...changes that used to characterize much of his work. Drifting is a lighter-than-air romantic ballad that could almost be sung by Crooner Johnny Mathis: "Drifting on a sea of forgotten teardrops/On a life-boat/Sailin' for your love/Sailin'home." Big-beat songs like Freedom and Nightbird Flyin' do hark back to the past, yet for once, there is no screech or reverberation to get in the way of the music. For the uninitiated-or for those who turned off when Jimi turned on before an audience like a black Elvis Presley-The Cry of Love...
Critic Into Wife. The fact is that Fanny did not rate Henry very highly as a poet. "The Prof has collected all his vagrant poems into a neat little volume christened mournfully Voices of the Night. He does not look like a nightbird and is more of a mocking-bird than a nightingale . . ." And when he published his next volume: "The Professor has a creamy new volume of verses out . . . the cream of thought being somewhat thinner than that of the binding." But when, in 1843, Fanny finally said yes. she loyally ended her role as one of Henry...
People who see little of him think of him as a garrulous, facetious and easygoing nightbird whose one aim in life is to figure in the list of spurious personalities who make up café society. Those who have seen him from inside the circus know him as a stubborn man of uncommon determination, whose whole life is devoted to proving himself as big a man and a better showman than his uncle, John Ringling...
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