Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...because Kenworthy is quiet and refuses to sing his own praises, it is often hard for those who don't know him to figure...
...latest, though certainly not the last, of the recent charity "megathons." Holding hands in a human chain that, in theory at least, was supposed to stretch from coast to coast, an eclectic, Fellini-like crowd was expected to sing America the Beautiful (key lyric: "From sea to shining sea") at 3 p.m. EDT, as well as the trendier anthems We Are the World and Hands Across America...
...snack shop or maybe even a small restaurant-nightclub where the Great Pacific Jazz Band, the septet he has led from his piano for 20 years, can play. These days, they've got a regular Sunday gig in Encino. Sometimes Molly drops by to sing...
Molly the blues singer, that is. The one who recorded an album, Molly Sings, when she was six. Whose favorite vocalists were Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald. Who, for a second-grade show-and-tell about a famous American (in which most of the boys dressed as George Washington and most of the girls as Florence Nightingale), showed up as Bessie Smith, in a big old dress and a perm like an Afro. "When I was a little kid," Molly says, "I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs...
...stage an arrhythmic song-and-dance routine in the middle of an empty football stadium. While three of the performers pound out a funky beat on keyboard, drums and guitar, the other six do an out-of-step side-to-side shuffle. In between refrains, the various salesmen sing rap-style verses in which they boast about their prowess on the showroom floor...