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...condoned, noted that in the wake of the Goetz case a hit-and-run driver in New York City had been caught and beaten by an enraged mob. Said the Journal: "Authorities must recognize that their own failure to protect citizens itself breeds crime." The Boston Globe viewed "pistol- packin' Bernhard Goetz" with alarm: "With no psychiatric evaluation yet made, he may resemble Richard Speck more than Wyatt Earp...
Honky-tonk songs, like Pistol Packin ' Mama, came out of Texas in the late 1930s and early '40s. Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis adapted the style to rock 'n' roll in the '50s. Sometimes called rockabilly, it celebrates booze, gambling, fighting, steppin' out, temptation and, like all country music, love. Honkin' is the word for having a good time. In the olden days the distinctive instrumental sound of honky-tonk was tinny guitar and pianoplunk. Today the new rockabilly is a country-and-western/rhythm-and-blues mix, and its dominant sound is a heavily...
...Pistol-Packin' Mama. In the death scene, Stratas shed real tears and made her audience suffer with her as the strings surged upward to a great chord, punctured by Violetta's desperate cry: "Ah! gran' Dio! Morir si giovine [Ah, great God! To die so young]." After the performance, Teresa, smothered in flowers, wearing a green Florentine velvet gown, was seized by a hollow cough. "You see, Violetta is contagious," she said...
Teresa made her debut in her father's restaurant at four, singing Pistol-Packin' Mama. At 15, she was singing in Toronto dives. "If you learn to hold an audience of drunks who would rather be noisy, you can surely hold people at the Met who pay to hear you," she says. She saw her first opera at 16, when Renata Tebaldi sang La Bohème's Mimi in Toronto. At 20, she outsang 2,000 contestants to win the annual audition and a contract at the Metropolitan Opera...
...Miami of a West Indian father, Songstress Williams has retained some of the rhythmic flavor of the Caribbean in her gospel songs. Those wild, vibrant rhythms, plus her instrumental style of phrasing and her phenomenal range, set her apart from every other gospeler. The classic of her repertory is Packin' Up, in which her voice soars and plunges with an exuberance no other gospeler can match...