Word: singed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kids would all sing--he would sing in the wrong...
...composition-he gets Saturday and Sunday off, barring a major newsbreak-takes him about two hours. Once, on deadline at the time of Helen Keller's death, he wrote a dirge in 15 minutes. "I read the news every morning," he sums up in one ballad, "and I sing the blues every...
Janis Joplin is hooked. She has to turn on almost every night. "I'm on an audience trip," she says. "When I go on stage to sing, it's like the 'rush' that people experience when they take heavy dope. I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me. Sex is the closest I can come to explaining it, but it's more than sex. I get stoned from happiness. I want to do it until it isn't there any more...
...tolerable concert, but the songs weren't much better than the dialogue. They change from folk to rock as the hero gets corrupted (yes, Marshall, the media is the message). Leading man Roger Brown had a pleasant voice, and would have been a marvelous leader for a summer camp sing-a-long. The rock music, and the rock group, The Brown Paper Bag were monotonous, and imitative (more plagiaristically than facetiously) of groups like the Jefferson Airplane...
...criticized only for not yet having coaxed any really sparkling performances from his excellent cast. Richard Kiley as Caesar and Bruce MacKay as Rufio are the best of a dry, consistent lot; the most notable object of disappointment is Leslie Uggams, who failed to convince me she can sing. Claudia McNeil, sadly, has little...