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...want to emphasize that we're not competing with anyone else. We're just trying to add somethin new," he said...

Author: By Joanne L. Kenen, | Title: New Black Student Magazine Stresses a Variety of Talents | 4/5/1976 | See Source »

...money." And the truth must come for the welfare applicant, in the form of notarized letters. A guy who looks like Broderick Crawford, only beaten, pulls forms out of several different pockets, "I can show you so much stuff...dis, dat...I can show you names, red numbers...somethin's awful funny here...doesn't meet...

Author: By Gregory F. Lawless, | Title: Watching the Camera | 9/24/1975 | See Source »

...most part, though, Friedman's attempts at humor, outrageously funny in his first album, here are less outrageous and much less funny, usually degenerating into clumsy tastelessness or aimless wisecracking. His glorification of Jewish machismo, "They Ain't Makin' Jews Like Jesus Anymore," is embarrassingly sophomoric. "Somethin's Wrong With the Beaver," a eulogy to Jerry Mathers--supposedly killed in Victnam, actually alive and working as a bank teller in California--wavers between pathos and satire, finally achieving neither. Most of the other songs are simply incoherent or pointless. Where Sold American was absurdly satirical or emotionally poignant this album...

Author: By Stephen J. Chapman, | Title: Kinky Country | 3/22/1975 | See Source »

...similar pelts he's taken in previous years. "The weathah's been tricky foh the pahst coupla wintahs," he told me, taking a big piece of a pine branch out of his mouth. "But, t'ain't gonnah suhprise me if that theha fella is tryin to tell us somethin of this wintah...

Author: By Jeff Leonard, | Title: Looking for Snow | 12/14/1974 | See Source »

...drugstore blonde with a guitar under her arm had been rebuffed by every other record company in Nashville. But when she appeared at the Columbia/Epic offices, Producer Billy Sherrill thought he heard something special-a tear in her voice. "Somethin' said, 'Don't turn this chick down,' " Sherrill recalled later. Thus it came about that he signed Tammy Wynette, supervised her first recording session and even wrote the song for it: Apartment Number Nine. The record reached the top 20 on the Billboard country charts. Tammy's next two, Your Good Girl's Gonna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Sherrill Sound | 10/22/1973 | See Source »

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