Word: singings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Happily, we may soon have fewer reasons to sing the blues. New music-recording and -delivery technologies are poised to give us more control over what we hear, where we hear it and even how much we pay for the privilege. Philips Electronics is selling a music CD recorder for about $600 that lets you copy an entire CD (or any other album) onto a new CD, produce your own greatest-hits collections from several albums or just bring those old LPs and cassette tapes into the digital age. Pioneer and Marantz will begin selling similar recorders this summer. Sony...
...Does it ever creep you out that people have sex while listening to you sing...
...sing I Left My Heart in San Francisco at every concert. You must hate...
...knows how. Buffett's empire rests on the beer-soaked foundation of shows like this one in Cincinnati. He presides over the ritual, a short, balding, joyful character charging around the stage, cracking wise and showing off an uncanny ability to sing, play guitar, smile and kick beachballs all at the same time. Scores of those balls and inflatable sharks are bouncing above the crowd; doctors and lawyers are dancing with their children; sales clerks and college kids are swaying with their honeys; and everyone's singing along with the tight, glistening music. It's a giddy, collective delusion--landlocked...
...meet a star who seems like a regular guy. "Can I shake your hand?" someone asks. "Sure," says Buffett, "for a hundred bucks." Everyone laughs. He asks a woman at the counter how she wants her burger, and suddenly he's leading the crowd in a Cheeseburger in Paradise sing-along. The assistant captures it all on video, and Buffett is ready for his getaway. He ducks outside, gets on his bike. Another wave of autograph seekers hits him. "Sorry," he says, checking his watch. "Gotta go to work." It's a canard: he's already there...