Word: singings
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...being of "Ethiopian-French Canadian-Italian & Irish descent," and notes that one of his five wives was the stripper Tempest Storm. Jeffries was a mellow baritone; he had sung with Cab Calloway. On screen, as Herbert Jeffrey, he became the smoothest cowboy west of Sugar Hill in four sagebrush sing-a-longs made in the late 30s at a black-owned California ranch. As Bogle observes, Jeffries and his light-skinned leading ladies were the "whites" in these films; the supporting roles were taken by dark-skinned comics like Mantan Moreland...
Only the title track, a jilted-lover jam, manages to break free. Crow gets her voice under the song, and the sing-along chorus--"Break my heart again/For old times' sake"--actually inspires singing along. For a moment, the summer sun feels as if it just might warm the back of your neck forever...
Attorney General John Ashcroft showed his softer side last week as a guest on the Late Show with David Letterman ("Top 10 Reasons John Ashcroft Would Not Sing on Our Show--No. 5: Too busy tapping my phones"). But Ashcroft isn't softening his stance on the death penalty. Sources tell TIME that the Attorney General overruled recommendations from the U.S. Attorney in Brooklyn, as well as from his own committee of lawyers who review death-eligible cases, and instead decided last week to seek capital punishment for Emile Dixon, an alleged drug kingpin. It's the 12th time since...
These guys get filed under "roots rock" because they have been known to sing like Byrds and rhyme 'n' strum like Dylan. Now they have thrown together every instrument and influence at their disposal, futuristic synthesizer atop old-fashioned piano, to prove they're no nostalgia act. The result is gorgeous. Half the songs are close to perfect: the melodies stick, the newfangled keyboards breeze in and out with supernatural grace, the words submerge the listener in both sadness and blissed-out reverie. The band has lost its "roots" and found its voice...
...Sharon K. Sing ’05 makes her friends uncomfortable by casually telling disturbing stories about her youthful misbehavior. “Yeah, so there was this teacher who I made sure to kick in the nuts every day of fifth grade,” Sing recounted. “That was so fun.” Her male blockmates have started wearing protective cups...