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...album also showed that Charles could lay his tortured vocal style on such chestnuts as the Arlen-Mercer ?Come Rain or Come Shine? and Irving Berlin?s ?Alexander?s Ragtime Band.? That?s an amazing cut. Written as a ?coon song? (minstrel number) in 1911, Charles made it a black song; he transformed this antique march into a big-band raver. The band (Burns did the brassy, bluesy charts) plays the melody and Charles comes in an antiphonal bar later, bleating "Come on an' hear!" By the end of the chorus he's quoting his own "This Little Girl...
...marshal went on to promise that Prince’s Purple Rain would be played at all subsequent 2004 reunions...
...dozen students and Harvard employees stood in the rain outside Lamont Library in April to protest an appearance there by Meyer...
...National Weather Service forecast a 60 percent chance of rain for this morning, but predicted showers will likely taper off in the afternoon. Two years ago, torrential rains dampened the ceremonies...
Current forecasts for tomorrow’s Commencement predict a 50 percent chance of rain and thunderstorms...