Word: singe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...usually kept very much in the background. Ike's lead guitar, too, is incredibly understated, considering his brilliance. Yet such self-restraint is an outstanding feature of the Turners' consummate professionalism. Ike builds a song carefully; anything held back now will simply provide a bigger punch later. The Ikettes sing, dance, and occasionally play maracas. They are essential to the vitality of the show; their choreography translates the rhythmic structure of each song into visual terms. To an effete spectator, it could easily seem corny: the Ikettes hopping around like possessed go-go girls with the Kings of Rhythm swaying...
...Turner guitar solo. For the briefest moment, Ike took over and showed us just how mean he can be; we winced, shuddered, and were immediately left wishing for more. The next song "I Smell Trouble," also had something nice to offer. Near the end of the song, Tina would sing a line alone and Ike's guitar would duplicate the line, note for note, with identical phrasing. Again, it was all too short, but so sweet. The show closed with "Land Of a Thousand Dances" in a burst of strobe-light flashes, but unfortunately without the finishing touch. The climax...
Gordon was duly arrested for violating Utah's obscenity statute, which makes it "unlawful for any person to willfully or knowingly sing or speak an obscene or lewd song, ballad or any other obscene or lewd words in any public place or in the presence of other persons." In response, the defendants filed suit in U.S. district court against the local prosecutor, charging that the Utah law was unconstitutional...
McHale's Navy and the short-lived sitcom bearing his own name, made it obvious that he is, at best, a second banana. Knotts, the Milquetoast deputy sheriff on the old Andy Griffith Show, tried to make a virtue of his inability to sing, dance or string a show together. Opening night, Guest Anthony Newley pushed Knotts around and took command-a running gag that provoked a feeling of sympathy. But can other guests and the same gag make a season...
...wanted more credit. Turned down, he began cursing and throwing chips; whereupon a hotel executive drew a pistol. Sinatra left, snarling: "The mob will take care of you." The law responded with a couple of old saws of its own. Sheriff Ralph Lamb ordered that before Sinatra may sing in Las Vegas again, "he must come downtown and get a work permit." District Attorney George Franklin Jr. added: "Now I'd like to have a little talk with Mr. Sinatra. I'd like to get together with him on the subject of his friendships with members...