Word: songe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Crooner was apparently intended to be a program for a New Year's Eve ball, incorporating Latin jazz standards such as "Mas Que Nada" and two or three pop favorites ("Beat It" and "Only You") into a group of songs for dancing close and reminiscing. Unfortunately, Nascimento often sounds like a wedding singer gone bad, and it's hard to sit through his version of "Beat It" with a straight face. The romance of the Spanish lyrics might hold your interest through the first song or two, but then the '80s elevator-music feel begins to shine through...
...Peter Pan bus to get going. On this trip to discover what the life of a management consultant was like, I was quickly discovering what it was not. I rode in a bus for four hours in front of a man singing the same four bars of a song over and over again. I wondered whether this adventure was a good idea. The bus delivered me to New York's Port Authority with just enough time to change into more respectable clothing in the definitely proletarian bathroom. I hailed a cab and rode across town to a French restaurant, eager...
...there and playing recorded music or music that I myself have recorded before and am playing. It's more than that; I hope to take people on some kind of a journey, so that it has a beginning, a middle and an end, rather than just playing one song or another...
...Wyclef Jean, cite Marley as a role model. His legacy is a lot to live up to. Stephen Marley, who performs alongside his brother Ziggy in the reggae band the Melody Makers, says he has come to terms with it. "The thing is you have to accept that these songs are yours," he says. "Me having kids now, I know that any song I have is really my children's. Like my shoes, like my pants. Once they can fit in them, it's theirs. So that is the way I look...
...home computer and a friend tries to call me on the same line? After all, a modem connection is just another phone call. But for all our high-tech wizardry, my friends still get a busy signal even if I'm just deleting junk e-mail or downloading a song. I may get a little drowsy at the keyboard, but I can still multitask--if only my PC will...