Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fighting the enemy." Graham himself insisted, "This is not a prowar rally, or an antiwar rally. If it became a pro-or antiwar rally, I'd pull out. I've never taken a stand on the war. This is not a political event. Let's sing a little, let's wave the flag, let's rejoice in all that's best in our country. We know America has its faults. But there are good things about America. It has not gone to the dogs. Let's be happy on our birthday." Still...
...such diverse talents as Peggy Lee, Judy Collins, Ella Fitzgerald and the West Coast rock group called Three Dog Night (which moves up to No. 1 on the Billboard chart this week with a single of Newman's, Mama Told Me). Newman and Nilsson much prefer to sing their own material. Self-involvement, however, did not prevent Harry from devoting his latest RCA album (Nilsson Sings Newman) to Randy's songs...
...turntable. Surprise. There, for everyone to hear, is the famous unison recitative for cellos and double basses that opens the Ode to Joy from the last movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Pause. Then comes the languorous twang of a guitar, and a voice begins to sing in accented English...
...greatest composers. "Liszt controls my hands for a few bars at a time, and then I write the music down," explains Mrs. Brown. "Chopin tells me the notes at the piano and pushes my hands onto the right keys; if it is a song, Schubert tries to sing it-but he hasn't got a very good voice. Beethoven and Bach prefer to have me seated at the table with pencil and paper; then they give me the key, the timing, the left hand and the right hand...
Ever since four blithe spirits from Liverpool turned the world upside down, the most visible pop singers have been those who have dealt with contemporary moods and issues. Simultaneously trend setters and chroniclers of an era, they sing of grass, alienation and oppression. The very names of those who have made it are slogans of rebellion: the Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin, Wayne Newton . . . Wait a minute-Wayne Newton? Isn't he that big, baby-faced panda, that tenor with adenoidal arrest and the grin that seems to tell you he just made all-state halfback at Waycross High? Where...