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...Bricusse are at their painful worst when they depart from typical song-and-dance numbers like "A Wonderful Day Like Today" or "Where Would You be Without Me?" and attempt flashy theatricality. "The Joker" and "Who Can I Turn To?" seem to have been written more for Newley's nightclub act than for a musical comedy and Sellon's delivery of the songs bear ugly shades of Caesar's Palace. The writers reach the lowest depths of their lyrical abyss with "Feelin' Good," a number that sounds like it was lifted from some bastardized Porgy and Bess. In a semicomatose...
...Takin ' It to the Streets, and helped change the Doobies from journeymen to super stars. McDonald's sprightly, airy tunes telescoped neatly with Templeman's cushy production. The results had hints of funk and disco, discreet jazz inflections and uninsistent horn breaks, and sounded like contemporary nightclub music. McDonald, who professes vast admiration for R & B luminaries like Marvin Gaye and Sam and Dave as well as tunesmiths like Burt Bachrach, says, "I like to write hits. My biggest reason for writing a song is to have it on the radio. It's kind...
Buchwald failed to become one of the fast-rising young stars in the Marshall Plan, though, and in 1949 he went to the managing editor ot the International Herald Tribune in Paris and told him he wanted to do a nightclub and film column. "He said if they wanted someone to do it, they'd find someone and it wouldn't be me, and he threw me out of the office," Buchwald recalled. Two weeks later, the intrepid would-be columnist heard the managing editor had left town for a while, and he went back to the Tribune...
...regular on The Sonny and Cher Show. When the show was retired, Langston, who had been pocketing about $1,500 a week, decided to call it quits too. He dropped out of performing for about a year and a half to open and manage his own Los Angeles nightclub, Showbiz...
...Brooklyn. A teacher of high school Spanish for eleven years, Levenson amused his pupils by recounting tales of his poor but happy childhood and strict but loving parents. ("Our menu at mealtime offered two choices-take it or leave it.") After he turned his classroom routines into a nightclub act, the portly, bow-tied comedian was an instant hit on television and host of his own show in the 1950s. His storytelling often shaded into serious commentary on child rearing and modern morals: "It's not matriarchy we have to fear-it's kindergarchy, government of the children...