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...produced by the great Huey P. Meaux, who is responsible for the Peggy Scott and Jo Jo Benson hits, "Lover's Holiday," "Soulshake," and "Pickin Wild Mountain Berries." Meaux kept almost all the cuts simple, melodic, and less than three minutes long. The best of them are the amazingly pompous and melodramatic "I Can't Take Another Heartache" and "Put It On Me." Talbert pulls off singing such ludicrous songs only on the strength of his fantastic voice, which falls just a little short of Screaming Jay Hawkins...

Author: By Andy Klein, | Title: Obscure Vinyl Some Nice Records | 3/9/1971 | See Source »

...When Parkinson analyzes beards through history and finds them to be a sure indicator of lack of civilization (a thicket behind which older men could hide their uncertainties), he is at his bluff best. But the crotchety professor can also be dull. His strident common sense often sounds simply pompous; and his habit of describing imaginary conversations seems contrived. Parkinson's biggest problem is best described in another law as yet unelucidated by the master: iconoclasm amuses in direct proportion to its originality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notable | 3/8/1971 | See Source »

...pompous. It's true. O miserable, miserable beast! I HATE myself!" I stamped my foot...

Author: By Richard Bowker, | Title: Books The Wreckage of Agathon | 12/11/1970 | See Source »

...Pompous, pompous, pompous!" she screeched. "You'd mock it in anyone else...

Author: By Richard Bowker, | Title: Books The Wreckage of Agathon | 12/11/1970 | See Source »

Solow is known as a quiet man, not at all pompous, and is held somewhat in awe at M. I. T., where he and Paul Samuelson are the mainstays of the Economics Department...

Author: By Robert Decherd and Scott W. Jacobs, S | Title: The Presidency: Clip and Save Part II | 12/5/1970 | See Source »

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