Word: singed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spite of their new-found prosperity, the lame McGee and blind Sonny Terry sing and shout their blues with all the pathos of their poverty-stricken days in Carolina and Tenessee. They began with Midnight Special and Can't Stop Me Now Because I'm Climbing On Top of the Hill, during which Terry, a man with a rhythmic soul, seemed to be singing and playing his harmonica at the same time. Sticking to the tried and true, they followed with John Henry, Take This Hammer and Poor Howard's Dead and Gone, an old Leadbelly song which Terry recorded...
...afterdinner farrago" that ran in London for 759 performances. The two men are Michael Flanders, who is vivacious and bearded and sails about in a wheelchair, and Donald Swann, who is mousy and bespectacled and stays put at the piano. Flanders wrote the words for the songs they sing, Swann the music. Flanders also does the talking between songs, which is now and then at Swann's expense. The two of them are notably British yet notably themselves-casual and informal, yet with the timing of the solar system and the teamwork of the Lunts. Altogether, they...
...Twenty One's penny-ante sister show, Tic Tac Dough, when she answered a call to audition as a folk singer. This led her to the office of Tic Tac Dough Producer Howard Felsher, who gave her answers and hints that she would get her big chance to sing on the show. "I botched it up," recounted poor Kirsten. She had asked for her categories in the wrong order and pocketed only...
When they finally discovered that the Hungarian pins they wore were actually the symbol of refugee freedom fighters, they moved about shaking down anyone who looked like he might have been passing them out. They liked to circle into groups of 100 or so, and sing party songs while the men swayed to the music. One night when the Yale Russian chorus staged a counter amusement, they paused long enough from their shredding of copies of Amerika to express disapproval of those intrigued by the Americans...
Kopit is the author of The Questioning of Nick, The Runway of Life, Sing to Me Through Open Windows, and Aubade, all presented at Harvard in recent years. He is currently on a Shaw Travelling Fellowship in Europe...