Word: singings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heard speakers and chanted slogans as at all good political rallies. Then we were asked to hold hands with those beside us--I held the hand of the black woman to my left and the white man to my right--and raise them to the sky, and sing in unison "We Shall Overcome." And as we sang the verses, 7000 strong, swaying to the tune, a black singer poured his soft, improvised, falsetto blues accompaniment over us, soothing, reassuring, strengthening. We Shall Overcome, we sang, and we believed. How could we not believe? We were too strong, too good...
...existential despair, and it is hard to find a place to hang a plot), Elliott rescues a sinking seaman, who happens to be the sweetheart of Lampie's daughter Nora (Helen Reddy). All of the townspeople gather to drive off greedy Dr. Terminus and to sing a big production number to let Elliott know they think he's an O.K. dragon. Like most of the other big song-and-dance routines, this one offers a good opportunity to line up for more popcorn. Otherwise, Pete's Dragon is likable fantasy. There will be adult viewers who would...
...percussion accent. Still, it is a better song than "Lowdown"--mellower, although the brass charts are pleasantly aggressive, and more lyrical overall. The chorus is a nice surprise, employing an unexpected chord progression that grows maddeningly on the listener despite the fact that it's virtually impossible to whistle, sing or hum. "Gimme the Goods" revives the sad small-time hoods of "Lido Shuffle," still looking for that one last job to put them on Easy Street. This time, the tune is much more funky, a roaring big-band epic that pulls out all the stops. Steve Lukather kicks...
...Small" is very funny, but He doesn't make fun of society directly but packs his stories with non sequiturs and relates incidents that could never happen. He begins the Grandmother's Song with an innocent verse that any matriarch would be proud to hear her offspring sing...
...then the trouble starts. One of these brothers turns out to be the long-lost king of Barataria, but good Venetian egalitarians that they are, neither of the supposed brothers wants to be the ruler or knows which actually is. All of which gives them good rea on to sing clever songs about people who do not believe in monarchy but must be king. And this, after all, is the only important point. Gondoliers opens with 20 solid minutes of singing, and may just be the lightest, frothiest, most musical musical G & S ever wrote. And the word is that...