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...band pillages comfortable Top 40 riffs from George Michael's Faith, Billy Joel's Piano Man and anything Elton John didn't bolt to the floor. Take Your Mama feels familiar enough to dance to and new enough to keep you riveted. It's an excellent pop song...
...more depressing truisms of the day: Young people hate old songs. They don?t get the smoothness, the optimism, the careful rhyming. Precision of lyric and emotion is so uncool it?s almost Republican. (Worse then Republican: most of them would rather listen to Cheney than to Cole Porter.) For them, the Great American Song Book might as well be in Esperanto - a language not worth knowing. Kids don?t think of a standard by Gershwin or Kern or Rodgers as a failed version of a new song. It just isn?t music to them...
...have a brief intermission.? The soubrettes then materialized, to sing - not an Alicia Keys or Gretchen Wilson hit, but a number from ?42nd Street,? the 1981 Broadway show revived three years ago and still running, and, in deepest antiquity, the 1933 Warner Bros. musical. And not the famous title song or the semi-standards ?Shuffle Off to Buffalo? or ?You?re Getting to Be a Habit With Me,? but the uptempo flirtation tune ?Young and Healthy.? Diana, a chunky bundle of brio, sang the Dick Powell role. Allie, a slim sylph, had the Ruby Keeler-Peggy Sawyer part...
...song?s bridge (?If I could hate yuh/ I?d keep away / But that ain?t my nature / I?m full of vitamin A, say!?), each girl semaphored ?hate? with raised palms and formed an A by touching her open thumbs and forefingers. When they repeated the bridge and got to ?Vitamin A,? the seven-year-old deftly lifted the nine-year-old off the floor and into her arms. They belted out the last verse (?In a year or two or three/ Maybe we will be too old?) and concluded to rapturous applause from the audience of three: Mary...
Although Corrigan was not yet sure what song the band will close its final encore with, he said that he hopes for one in particular: “The General,” the immensely popular ballad about an army officer who turns his back on and saves his men from needless conflict...