Word: songe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...insistence that it's a wholesome entertainment business sometimes gets it in trouble with the public. When the Hilton Flamingo Casino participated in a job fair in March at a Kansas City, Mo., grade school, the sight of children wearing casino T shirts and singing the riverboat's theme song received critical coverage in a local newspaper. Then there was the woman who tried to have her dead husband's name removed from the mailing lists of the Station Casino, which Sharon Willman is having trouble with. She was told that the only way to have his name deleted...
...newcomers, King has had the most mainstream success. Her clubland cover of I Say a Little Prayer was featured on the sound track to the Julia Roberts film My Best Friend's Wedding and made its way into the Top 40 on the pop charts. The song also appears on King's new album, an effusive collection of upbeat, danceable reggae. The best song here, the aggressively catchy L-L-Lies, works because the accusatory tone of the lyrics allows King to show some verve and edge. Some of the other songs on the album are a bit too sugary...
...Lord's eponymous debut, for instance, the wistful effect of songs like "Helsinki" and "He'd Be a Diamond" was enhanced by the simple production values of girl-and-guitar, while "Lights are Changing," the only band-backed song, set the album off to a more invigorating start. In fact, as an album, Mary Lou Lord provided hope that the folk genre goals of simplicity did not preclude melodiousness and rhythm...
...Middle East, Lord teased the audience by starting her set with a Ween cover, and then moving on to two new original pieces--"His Lamest Flame" and "Western Union Song"--which may or may not appear on Got No Shadow. Although Lord played both songs solo, either could easily be adapted as band material, especially "His Lamest Flame," an upbeat and gregarious sour grapes song which wouldn't easily be adulterated by backup accompaniment. The audience responded enthusiastically to the new material, crowding up to the stage for the first time during the sequence of bands that evening; they also...
...Indie World," a song from he first EP, Lord dropped a lot of names and worried that she didn't belong to a music scene that included fellow Kill Rock Star performers Huggy Bear and Bikini Kill. N matter what the future may hold, she insists that her first full-length album does not mark a departure from that scene. And success she reaches with the WORK Group CD will only be reflected in back catalog sales for Kill Rock Stars, enabling them to keep the records of other struggling indie artists on the shelves. In addition, the covers...