Word: obbligato
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That was quite some interview that the Beatles' John Lennon laid on the fortnightly Rolling Stone. Hacked of hair and short of beard, John said his Goodbye to All That in some 24,000 unchosen words, accompanied by a running obbligato from Wife Yolco...
...copies, and has a firm web-hold on Top 40 radio audiences from coast to coast. In Detroit, for example, WXYZ's Dick Purtan plays it regularly during "tubby time" for kids and adults alike, who seem unable to resist its splash-splash counterpoint, quack-quack obbligato, and cheerful pop-style parody of the 1930s Hit Parade...
...kiss from your mother.' Now what kind of crummy blackmail is that, anyway? Don José is like nothing-we give him his Flowurie Song (sic), and he sings it on an old busted acoustic record. That's all he deserves." Other innovations: a kazoo obbligato in the Children's Chorus; a Habañera that begins with the Bach Chaconne and turns into a mélange of rock and Dixieland...
...sick occasionally." But since the Austrian soprano was coming all the way to New York, he added, she at least deserves the chance to give one performance in Von Karajan's critically acclaimed production of the Ring. From Vienna, the conductor supplied an obbligato of support to Bing's explanation...
Glittering in red, gold and mother-of-pearl, Lucille answers in a wordless, keening obbligato. King rides the beat with his whole body, nudging it with his knee, slashing across it with his voice. Lucille skitters in and around it, then swoops up to hover on long, suspended blue notes that make King grimace with pleasure. King is all surging masculine power. Lucille is all sinuous womanly grace. If listeners are more moved by her than by him, King does not mind. Lucille is "the one girl I can depend on"-his electric guitar...