Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Persuasions, next door at Paul's Mall through Sunday, are a four-man singing group famous for having spurned any backup instrumentation for years and years. Word has it, however, that they've used a band from time to time in the last year, but that they still mostly stick to a cappella. As you'd expect, they have fine, smooth, well-harmonized voices and like to sing softish, intricately scored stuff...
...Persuasions are next door, at the more expensive, streamlined Paul's Mall. Their perennial boast, "We still have no Band," went under with their last recording. Occapella still prevails, however, and they are very entertaining. They may invite the audience on stage to sing with them, but don't be surprised if they have vanished by the end of the song...
...between numbers the group confers in a football huddle, selecting songs by collective whim but carefully allowing each artist a chance to display his own material. Packed tightly together in front of the stage, teen-agers too young to have been concertgoers in 1970 sway in a mass and sing every word of Carry On. Older C. S. N. & Y. fans occupy stadium bleacher seats, many with small children...
...Yankee Doodle Dandy. The Brando is pretty much of a period piece that's only any good because of its star and because of what it says in retrospect about the 50s. The Cagney film, on the other hand, is the greatest musical biography ever made. Cagney can't sing to save his life, but he sure can boogie. The patriotic clap-trap that fills the footage can go, but the George M. Cohan songs should stick around forever...
...cartoon adaptation of Lewis Caroll's essay on sex and revolution, is playing at the MIT Student Center this weekend. Rumor has it that the MIT Players wanted Derek Bok to play the Cheshire Cat (he does have such a nice smile), but it turns out he can't sing. Charles Colson, who can and did sing, was next in line for the role, but his new agent, a fellow Chuck calls "God," said there wasn't enough money in it. Whoever they got to be the cat (we don't know because they wouldn...