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...love of the torture chamber to great comic effect. And Zak B. Stone ’03, as the hunchbacked assistant tormentor Wilfred, is captivating as the young maiden’s unwanted suitor. How he keeps the leer on his face, all the while doubled over and singing patter songs, is a mystery, but still a joy to watch...
...drumming career had stretched from Jelly Roll Morton to Charlie Parker, and who had recorded a Leiber-Stoller number as "Hound Dog Special" in 1954) enjoyed a two-sided hit with "Topsy." What was unusual was the four-part structure: three verses of piano, then four verses of blues patter, then the "What?d I say" chorus, and finally two minutes of boy-call-and-girl-response foreplay leading to the orgasm of the "What?d I say" chorus augmented by horns and the Raelets. After five minutes, what?d you say? Whew...
...seems to know that. Taking the stage in an OutKast T shirt, he performed a career-spanning set that didn't try to compete. He played his hits, jumped around like a pixie and worked up a serious sweat. And when it came time for some obligatory rock-star patter, he offered up anything but. "I really do hope that everyone is having a nice time." Not exactly "Hello, Cleveland," but, like Area: One itself, it was Moby at his most sincere...
...maybe that was Jocko's WDAS colleague, Georgie Woods, the Man With the Goods (who lived about three blocks from me). But it sounded fresh and seductive to this kid. An evening with Jocko was like an all-night jam session: the records were the familiar choruses, and his patter was the inspired improv...
...according to the label, by Douglas Henderson). If Jocko was baritone, Hy Lit was a nervous tenor. A would-be-pro baseball player from the University of Miami, he called his listeners "babycakes" and himself "Hyski O'Rooney McVoughtie O'Zoot." (Why oh why is Lit's peripatetic paradiddle patter embedded in my pre-teen muscle memory, especially considering that the rest of my musculature has amnesia?) Hy moved down the dial from WHAT 1340 to WIBG 990, when that station acquired a 50,000-watt transmitter and a new pop-rock sound...