Word: rhythms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Case in point is "Honey," the opening track, which not only boasts a buoyant rhythm track, but also shows a charming lack of ego. Mariah's voice slides so smoothly into Puff Daddy's drum machines that she almost erases herself inside her own song. But the song boogies, and so do we. Who loses...
...late night rendezvous above a city sky-line. Like Badu, D'Angelo and other artists in the rising Black Bohemian movement, Mariah shows a willingness to glide through her whole vocal range, layer her melodies and isolate a specific moment of romantic rapture. The idiosyncratic rhymes and loose rhythm track help make the song as unique and attention-getting as most of the other songs are plastic and disposable...
...Hollywood Rhythm, Kino on Video's four-cassette release of 31 musical shorts from 1929 to 1941, is something to sing about. They reveal terrific artists--Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Bessie Smith, Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Ginger Rogers--in their early prime, making the music that made them famous. The tunes sound fresh, the interpretations supple. A melody can suddenly improv into Rhapsody in Blue or Chopin's Funeral March or 'Deed I Do. Half a century before rap, Louis Armstrong was already sampling...
...times, the shorts directors got composers to cavort onscreen. Some look embarrassed--check out Richard Rodgers' stiff delivery and Lorenz Hart's plaid jammies in Makers of Melody--while others are to the camera born. In the 1934 Hollywood Rhythm, tubby lyricist Mack Gordon (Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?) is fast with a quip and light on his feet; doing a Latin dance, he irrepressibly shouts, "I got rumbatism...
...VIDEO: " 'Hollywood Rhythm,' Kino on Video?s four-cassette release of 31 musical shorts from 1929 to 1941, is something to sing about," writes TIME's Richard Corliss. "They reveal terrific artists -- Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Bessie Smith, Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Ginger Rogers -- in their early prime, making the music that made them famous. The films have the audacity of the talkies? youth: the films are filled with racial caricatures, and you?ll hear ?hell? and ?damn? in the 1929 Makers of Melody. But the tunes sound fresh, the interpretations supple. They embody the spirit of the Hollywood musical...