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...Decades after the fact, John Lennon remembered the impact Elvis had on kids in the 50s, who naively turned on their TVs and saw "a guy with long, greasy hair wigglin' his ass and singin' 'Hound Dog'." The weirdness was watching not just a white kid who sang black, but a man who moved like a antsy woman. And sometimes sang like one. Around his 19th birthday, a year before he hooked up with Sam Phillips' Sun Records, Elvis did a demo tape he recorded a noble-masochism ballad called "I'll Never Stand in Your Way." (The cut appears...
...WIGGLIN' HIS ASS AND SINGIN' 'HOUND...
...Platinum" CD is a speech Elvis made in 1971. Quoting Vincent Youmans' 1929 "Without a Song," he says, "So I keep singin' the song." The impulse to sing raunchy, corny, beautiful songs trapped Elvis; and in that trap, he sometimes found triumph...
...summer-camp buddy) asked them to write the book and lyrics for On the Town, a Broadway musical about sailors on leave in New York City that became their first hit. They later brought sophistication and wit to such shows as Wonderful Town, Bells Are Ringing and, most memorably, Singin' in the Rain, the 1952 film musical about the early days of talking pictures, cherished by many as the best of all Hollywood musicals...
...DIED. ADOLPH GREEN, 87, lyricist, librettist, playwright and performer who co-wrote hit Broadway musicals such as On the Town and the screenplay for Singin' in the Rain during a 60-year partnership with Betty Comden; in Manhattan. The couple was artistically inseparable and gave postwar America its most memorable Manhattan geography lesson?"The Bronx is up and the Battery down"?in the lyrics to New York, New York (A Hell of a Town...