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...detailed account of a typical first inning for the Stars, including three full pages on the at-bat of Moyshe, Noah's younger brother, who uses shoe polish to fake a beard. Panel after panel has him fouling away pitches, waiting for the right one, creating a metronomic visual rhythm as the tension builds. Sturm has figured out that a large part of baseball's appeal lies in its structure of little dramas making up the larger one, and he carries this through the entire book...
...thing about bad American music is that we like it because it’s bad. I don’t appreciate Marvin Gaye because of the soaring harmonies or intricate rhythm, but because he’s so... sexual. Generally, I find Babs cheesy, but cheesy can be fun. *NSync and Britney Spears are awful, but I know every word...
...What?d I Say" was Charles? biggest hit at Atlantic -the company must have issued three or four versions of the song, including on an album called "Do the Twist With Ray Charles" -and the conclusion of his career segue from rhythm to rock. But he was just getting started. His really big band LP, "The Genius of Ray Charles" (with arrangements by Ralph Burns and the young Quincy Jones), teamed him with veterans of the Count Basie and Duke Ellington outfits, and he proved he could play with the big boys, winning their respect after initial skepticism. It also...
...bubble sounds, cueing its novelty nature; but it had drive and its narrator?s tough-guy befuddlement at finding "a party going on" outside his bathroom. "Queen of the Hop," with Darin?s tentative, occasionally flat vocal submerged beneath a guitar and a sax that both beat a hard rhythm, was choked with references to recent songs ("Peggy Sue," "Good Golly, Miss Molly," "Sugartime," "Short Shorts," "Lollipop," "Sweet Little Sixteen") and dances (the chicken, the stroll), with a commercially canny citation of Dick Clark?s "Bandstand...
...maybe a less handsome relative of teen throb James Darren. But Bobby had two things they didn?t: a facility for songwriting and the old-fashioned ambition to go legit. The first hint of Darin?s staying power was "Dream Lover," a lovely potpourri of pop modes: the plinking rhythm of "Little Darlin?" (done pizzicato by violins here), the release from "This Little Girl of Mine" and a Don Costa-like mixed chorus, with women singing the heavenly-choir "ooo"s and men answering this siren call with a goofy but musically beguiling "wadda-wadda." Darin?s vocal is much...