Word: sings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...relentlessly moving-parts. Becaud at work stomps his feet to the rhythm of a song, darts to the piano to hammer out a few chords, hangs his chin on an accompanist's shoulder in a quest for greater intensity, even strolls out into the audience to invite a sing-along during some of the merrier numbers. Spotlighted in shameless mauves and chartreuses, caressing the microphone, pushing his husky voice from tenderness to remorse to rage, Becaud makes it seem that singing about love may be the world's oldest profession...
Whoosh. Becaud studied piano and composition, and was making a meager living writing cabaret songs when a friend suggested in 1953 that he ought to sing them as well. "When I told my wife I was going to sing," he recalls, "she said, 'You're not going to do that!' 'Yes, I am,' I said. We laughed for three hours...
...longer doubts the value of that gift. "On the last six days of Passover," he says, "Jews say a special prayer-the half Hallel. Tradition has it that when the Egyptians, in pursuing the Jews, were drowning in the Red Sea, the Lord kept His angels from singing His praises, admonishing them, 'How can you sing hymns while my creatures are drowning in the sea?'' Perhaps, he decides, life is always a half Hallel
...professionally, and only two had ever acted before. None of them could play the drums, so Mickey was tapped; Davy Jones couldn't play anything, so he was handed two maracas and a tambourine and told to get with it. None of them sounded as if they could sing, and they still...
...every other photographic gimmick that the Beatles people ever thought of, is doing well enough to be assured of a good run. Bright, unaffected and zany, it romps around haunted houses and toy factories with no intention of making things all add up. The boys more or less sing two or three songs per show, while the camera follows them in surrealistic pandemonium aboard everything from unicycles to epicycles. The show ranks 53rd in the Nielsens, but it has 32% of the audience in its time spot and is getting stronger by the week. All the same, the surest sign...