Word: songe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only three words, but they make a huge difference. At Saturday's Celebration of Women at Harvard, commemorating the 25th anniversary of women moving into the Yard, Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 announced a technically minor, but symbolically major change in the text of our school song, "Fair Harvard." The first line, which used to read, "Fair Harvard! thy sons to thy jubilee throng," now is as follows, "Fair Harvard! we join in thy jubilee throng." The use of the inclusive, non gender-specific pronoun in the song which is sung at almost every major Harvard event...
Cirello said it is difficult to explain why the song is appropriate. "For me, it is more of a feeling...the loss of someone who is loved," he said...
...took Cole Porter to prove Lisa Stansfield really had soul. On Red Hot + Blue, a 1990 tribute album to Porter, she contributed a sublimely sophisticated version of Down in the Depths. The song showed off the pop-soul diva's skills as a vocal interpreter; the number also demonstrated how good she could be when her material was as strong as her sure, supple voice...
Most of Lisa Stansfield is a slow-building, slow-burning pleasure. This is soul lite, harking back to the '70s, to Barry White, Roberta Flack and Diana Ross. The song Never, Never Gonna Give You Up evokes the throb of disco, but in a comely, cooing, classic way; Honest is a soul-baring ballad with an intimate, unadorned sound that leaves Stansfield's voice free to shimmer in the foreground; and I Cried My Last Tear, Last Night is an unabashed I-won't-get-stepped-on-in-relationships call to arms that makes its case passionately but not gratingly...
...should come as no surprise that Elton John's tribute to Princess Diana, his reworked Candle in the Wind, is selling extraordinarily well; the surprise is that nobody has come up with a commemorative song for, say, Red Skelton. (A priest has written a tune in honor of Mother Teresa.) Saluting the dearly departed with a pop song has a long and profitable tradition, as these following few examples show. --By Jamie Malanowski...