Word: singings
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...Stewart's It Had to Be You ... The Great American Songbook was the first pop-music album I've bought in years. Stewart may be a master of "tawdry sincerity," but after rock 'n' roll, heavy metal and rap, it is a great pleasure to hear (and sing along with) the old standards. So Stewart isn't Frank Sinatra. His tunes are still a musical step in the right direction--backward. DOROTHY E. MARTIN Edwardsburg, Mich...
...convinced that Radcliffe Rugby merits the commentator’s chair, consider this: they’re smart enough to see through political B.S. and cynical enough about current affairs to want real change. They’re politically committed, extracurricularly over-committed, and they can sing a mean rendition of “Doe, a deer, a female deer,” that, if included here, would ensure that Crimson President Amit R. Paley’s mother never invites me to Seder again...
When the average Japanese salaryman heads home each evening, the last song he wants to hear on his car radio or television is his corporate anthem, the tune he is compelled to sing at year-end parties or, even worse, while performing morning calisthenics in the factory yard. Pity, therefore, the workers of Yokohama-based Nihon Break Kogyo Co. After a popular midnight variety show, Asahi TV's Tamori Club, played its shaka [anthem], the company was bombarded with feedback from viewers until it finally decided to release the song as a single. It debuted last week...
...Still, the Madonna analogy limps. For one thing, Mui really could sing. Her sultry alto voice wrapped itself like a python around Canto-pop ballads, giving them a power, precision and, often, a desperation that never begged for pity. She sang of a strong woman's isolation-above, apart, alone. She was not the Madonna of Chinese music, but its Garbo...
...can’t actually sing,” Tannen said, saying that before the show he was “a little bit intimidated” by the other performers, whom he characterized as “really talented singers...