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...song?s sentiment was common, almost a trope, in '50s R&B: Baby, please don?t go, cause I love you so. (Ray Charles did two or three in this vein.) But, as one of Brown?s rare songs with more than three chords, it had some musical ingenuity: a desperate statement following by him and the saxes in a slow, keening descent...
DIED. Ahmet Ertegun, 83, singularly influential music mogul who in 1947 founded Atlantic Records, the label that launched seminal acts that included Ruth Brown, Ray Charles, Otis Redding (who called him Omelet), Aretha Franklin, Bette Midler and Cream; in New York City. The Turkish-born son of a diplomat, he fell in love with jazz in his youth, and as a teenager amassed a collection of 15,000 records. A hands-on producer, occasional songwriter, tireless talent scout and mentor to many of his artists, Ertegun--who started with a $10,000 loan from his dentist--popularized soul and later...
...RAY NAGIN, mayor of New Orleans, who, five months following Katrina, fended off charges of racism after calling for "chocolate New Orleans" to be rebuilt. He later apologized for his comments...
...story in computer games this year was HOW TO BLOW A HUGE LEAD, by Sony. Its PlayStation 2 was the champ in the last round of the console wars. This time Sony bet on a chip called the Cell and a disc format called Blu-ray. They're probably awesome, but how would anybody know? The PS3 is hideously expensive--it goes for up to $600--and Sony manufactured only a piddling few hundred thousand for the U.S., fewer for Japan. Plus it's hard to write games for; the launch titles were lame. You know you're in trouble...
...along with Jesse L. Jackson, of Operation People United to Serve Humanity, which today aims to fulfill similar goals as King’s former group. According to a press release, Jones himself was mentored by several well-known public figures. At age 15, Jones met jazz piano legend Ray Charles in Seattle, and the two soon became close. In a promotional video for the Harvard Mentoring Project made shortly before Charles’ death, the musician recalled his time with Jones. “You could tell that he wanted to learn, he wanted to know. And because...