Word: singed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...himself largely to personal matters-disjointed dreams like Motorpsycho Nitemare and unsentimental love. "Gypsy gal, you've got me swallowed," he confesses in Spanish Harlem Incident. "Your cracked country lips I still wish to kiss," he says To Ramona. His songs (which he defines as "anything I can sing") are, as usual, loosely constructed, with occasional memorable melodic phrases and mostly forgettable verse that runs stale and sodden for miles and then suddenly takes one by surprise. As for his nasal voice and wheezing harmonica, his fanatic following is evidence that a taste for them can be acquired...
...earned the right to their title by delighting the King with a performance of their songs during his 1956 visit to the Congo. Their earlier recording of Luba folk songs and a Mass won them a large international audience. Somehow their leader, Franciscan Father Guido Haazen, makes them sing together with precision and yet seem to be blithely improvising. Theirs are songs for working, praying, playing and dancing. One, sung in Swahili, begins: "Trouble. Sister, trouble, Father; the Europeans are arriving in Kenya from the airplane...
TRADITIONAL SONGS AND BALLADS (Folkways). The collection is Scottish, the period the 17th and 18th centuries, and the subject is sex. So sweetly do Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger sing the hypnotic tunes that even the most shocking deep-country scandals sound gentle and gay. There are printed lyrics and a glossary for those whose Scotch is weak...
SONGS FROM A COLONIAL TAVERN (Decca) have been chosen from more than 7,000 old ditties unearthed by Taylor Vrooman, who dresses up in knee breeches and sings them for visitors to Virginia's reconstructed colonial Williamsburg. Vrooman, and the cronies who sing catches with him, perform here with a formality and finish more suitable for a concert hall than a tavern, in spite of lyrics like "From good liquor ne'er shrink...
Fiddler on the Roof. Zero Mostel is a bundle of Zero Mostels, and a fresh one comes to view with each new performance. He can dance like a bear, sing like a frog and outstare an owl. A rhinoceros cannot readily distinguish Mostel from a rhinoceros. What links all of Mostel's roles is his gift for reaching the heart of a character and sympathetically synchronizing every heartbeat in the house with his. This gift is greatly evident in Fiddler on the Roof, a pleasantly nostalgic musical of Jewish community life in a tiny Russian village just prior...