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...wailing. We are reminded of his daring enunciation: all those words that suddenly began with h ("Hi want you, hi need you, hi-hi-hi love you"), the occasional glottal addition ("Glove me tender...") and his near Hawaiian avoiding of consonants ("Ya-hoo A-know Ah can be fou'/ Sittin' home all alo'"). That's from "Don't Be Cruel," a song that comes close to redefining the art of the pop vocal. It's gentle and amused, with a cute quaver in the "at" when he pleads "At least please telephone" and the octave drop on that lusty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Happy Birthday, Elvis | 1/8/2003 | See Source »

...Berlin was by then at retirement age. But he was never comfortable "sittin' in the sun, countin' my money," to quote the title of a Berlin tune that Louis Armstrong took to #30 in 1953. Around that time he prepared a musical, never produced, about Wilson and Addison Mizner (a Sondheim musical on the Mizner brothers, "Wise Guys," has languished for years). His last produced musical, the 1962 "Mr. President," meant to capitalize on the fascination with Jack and Jackie Kennedy but ran only eight months. He spent more than a decade on a sixth trunk-song film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: A Berlin Bio-pic | 12/30/2001 | See Source »

...hillbilly, and at night I was playing jazz with Roy Eldridge, Coleman Hawkins, Nat Cole and Art Tatum.' He cut his first records in 1936, backing blues singer-pianist Georgia White as she belted out Andy Razaf's raunchy threat, 'If I can't sell it, I'll keep sittin' on it, before I give it away.' A year later he formed his first trio, with the bass player Ernie Newton and rhythm guitarist Jim Atkins (the older half-brother of Chet Atkins, with whom Paul would cut the 1995 album 'Chester and Lester'). They came east and, 64 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Les Is More | 6/22/2001 | See Source »

...Otis Redding's (Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay RE-VERSED Sittin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just Give Me That Biblical Rock 'n' Roll | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

...2Nite" 2Pac 2. "Nuthin' But a 'G' Thang" Dr.Dre w/Snoop Doggy Dogg 3. "I'll Be There For You/You're All I Need To Get By" Method Man & Mary J. Blige 4."Memory Lane (Sittin' In Da Park)" Nas 5. "F--- tha Police" N.W.A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Five Best Hip-Hop Songs | 9/22/2000 | See Source »

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