Word: singed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blues is the growing noise nowadays, challenging rock 'n' roll on the charts, and no group is truer blue or more insinuatingly rhythmic than the five Temptations. Eight of the dozen songs are by Bill "Smokey" Robinson, including those catchy classics from an earlier album, The Temptations Sing Smokey: The Way You Do the Things You Do and My Girl...
...famed castrato soprano Pier Francesco Tosi in his book Observations on the Florid Song, which was the basic handbook for opera singers during the 18th century. In those days singers freely ornamented composers' scores with their own improvised embellishments in a style known as bel canto (literally, "beautiful singing") To today's purists, who worshipfully preach note-for-note fidelity to the composer the style is strictly bellow canto. Nevertheless, performances in opera houses and on recordings are now being laced with so many variations on old arias that Tosi would sing...
...that some pop vocalists such as Peggy Lee and Frank Sinatra, whose jazz improvisations are a direct counterpart of bel canto, are "technically better than most opera singers." The voice of Ella Fitzgerald, whom he regards as the prima donna of pop, "is so naturally placed that she can sing more in a week than most opera singers can in a month." The falsetto wailings of the Beach Boys and Beatle Paul McCartney all echo the early 19th century bel canto singers, he adds. Beyond their interpretive freedom, the major link between pop singers and the bel canto tradition...
...players, snarling at referees. A loss sends him into a paroxysm of frustration; even a victory leaves him wan and wet with perspiration. Not until the season is over and the pressure is off does Butch become a good guy again. Then he's off to sing a chorus of the Cannon Song and hoist a glass with "my guys...
...Split Second" by P. Greenspan freezes times momentarily and lets memory give a new order to the present. The poem has a tendency to become sing-song, but occasionally exhibits a control over colloquial diction and natural rhythms...