Word: sing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bourgeois Negroes at first winced at Charles's almost burlesque use of Negro idiom: it seemed embarrassingly clear that no white man could ever sing the songs his way. Today, though Charles still sings the same "race music," there is no modern singer who has not learned something from him. His touches turn up in other singers' styles; his trademark phrases, such as "What'd I say" and "Don't you know now" and "That's all right," poke out from everybody's rhythm choruses like passwords to success. But the man himself remains...
Darker Fears. Always the spirit Charles evokes is melancholy, even among those who respectfully call him by his press-agent nickname-"The Genius." Those who brood over his willingness to sing valueless songs also see with horror in the bravura, spotlight style of his band a hint that he may yet turn out to be a grinning bandleader some day. But other, darker fears call up his past arrests on narcotics charges, his occasional lapses into moments of incoherence, the grotesque contortions that sometimes seize him. Behind his dark glasses, there looms a man in trouble with himself...
Another old-fashioned innovation is that the leads can sing. Heroine Barbara Cook is fresher than springtime. Hero Daniel Massey (the son of Raymond) is greener than first love. Hesitant, ardent, naive, highhearted, he sets the fairytale mood of a show that has to make players and playgoers alike forget the false face of logic. The plot is only a paperweight designed to keep the airy goings-on from blowing away completely...
...folksingers were undaunted. When asked why they had come down, one of them explained, "We heard about what happened last week and thought it was pretty unfair." He said the folk-sing was "a kind of protest." The police haven't been by at all," he noted. "I wonder...
...everybody with the rich confusion of childhood. "I love Baby the same as Jesus," ten-year-old Penny declares, "and God the same as Mussolini, and Italy and the Fatherland less than God but more than my yellow bear." School is a hodgepodge of religion and Fascism. The children sing Ave Maria with a lily in their right hands; then they bawl out the Fascist hymn, switch the lily to their left hands and give the Roman salute...