Word: songe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Once, there was a wider and more deafening metallic overture in town, one that used to rise with the sun, part of the song that Walt Whitman used to "hear America singing...those of mechanics...blithe and strong." The steam trains came around the bend behind the houses and doubled their strokes up the slope, and the sound shook the windowpanes. But in a blink they were extinct. Our creamery went silent. So did the big diesel electric generators that pumped through the cold winter nights. Maybe it all is good. But the memories are so intimate and gratifying...
...else done, we would take the fancy headline type back to the wooden cases and carefully drop the letters into their compartments, thunk, thunk, thunk, a contented coda to Whitman's bawdy song. And finally we would turn the lights out and close the shop door, taking a last glance at the press dimly highlighted by the glow from street lamps. We were sure it would be there for us the next week...
...Whitney Houston can do it, why can't MARIAH CAREY? The diva of deep record sales is dipping her toes into the waters of acting. The video for her new song, Honey, which debuts this week, opens with a comedy sketch, after which she scampers around like a Bond girl (read: lots of changes into different, but equally skimpy, outfits). She's also in discussions about doing a movie. "It's a great way to release different creative energy," Carey says of acting. Her music is also changing--away from touchy-feely ballads to more collaborations with hip-hop artists...
...album reflects an eclectic, global vision. Wyclef grew up in Haiti, and he fills The Carnival with Caribbean rhythms and references; in fact, some of the songs are sung in Haitian Creole. In other songs, like We Trying to Stay Alive, Wyclef samples the Bee Gees, while in Gunpowder, he makes a powerful plea against violence. He even manages a skillful hip-hop version of Guantanamera. Like the Fugees' cover of Killing Me Softly, Guantanamera refashions an old song that is almost too familiar and makes it contemporary and vital. Altogether, the variety and reach of the album are extraordinary...
...four-CD set 'Elvis Presley Platinum: A Life in Music' means to scrape away the crust of camp idolatry from Presley?s image and re-establish him as a powerful, pioneering vocalist." Corliss is happy to report that it does. "The impulse to sing raunchy, corny, beautiful songs trapped Elvis," he writes. Still, before the decline, we had in a young Elvis "a terrific crooner who was closer, in intonation, vocal virtuosity and care for a song?s mood, to Bing Crosby than to any singer of the past 30 years. In that trap, as this set proves, he found...