Word: singer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...evidence of the first few nights, the new shows are following the Arsenio model so closely that they are almost indistinguishable from each other. The hyperkinetic mood is the same, the wildly panning camera is the same, and the guests are the same, literally. Rap singer "Puffy" Combs and Samuel L. Jackson each appeared on both shows. True, it's unlikely that Vibe's very first guest will be seen on Keenen--Jones persuaded President Clinton to appear pretaped from the White House...
...process, getting rid of some of the people he had depended on over the years to market his albums, Brooks decided to withhold his new record indefinitely. Jimmy Bowen, a former head of EMI-Capitol Nashville who worked with Brooks before leaving his post in 1995, predicts the singer will iron out his differences with the label in time to get the CD out by late fall. Says Bowen: "Nobody wins if [Brooks] keeps it in house, including...
Reading about the new generation of female musicians has made me less optimistic about pop culture. The fact that singer-songwriters like Sarah McLachlan and Jewel have managed to break through the homogenized slop that record companies are distributing does not mean that music or women have been liberated. As is the case with all true artists, it is their writing, singing and passion that do the most to distinguish them, not their gender. CRAIG R. BAYER North Bergen...
...into mainstream show business. Within a year of his flash flame, he had segued from being Elvis to doing Elvis, playing him on TV and in movies. By the '60s, he was his own parody, stunt double, postage stamp--the first Elvis impersonator. In the new era of the singer-songwriter, hack tunesmiths were still handing him drab variations on Don't Be Cruel. The Beatles left him for dead; and his darling, deviant version of Blowin' in the Wind (from a Graceland basement tape) shows he didn't quite get Dylan. Elvis was Vegas before he played Vegas...
...what's left? A terrific crooner who was closer, in intonation, vocal virtuosity and care for a song's mood, to Bing Crosby than to any top singer of the past 30 years. The under-the-balcony tenorizing of It's Now or Never, the final detonation of pain and taunt in Are You Lonesome Tonight?, the choir-soloist power of the hymn He Touched Me--his voice breaking poignantly at the end of the hymn, as if he had just seen Jesus--these still thrill and haunt. So does his desire to please an audience of kids and grandmas...