Word: songful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What, Canada's Prime Minister was asked, did he want to see most in Washington? "The sun," he replied. He got his wish. Walking through the White House Rose Garden last week, he looked up as the sun broke through the mist and a mockingbird burst into song from the topmost branch of a budding magnolia tree...
...Hardin's If I Were a Carpenter was a big hit for Bobby Darin, while Hardin's own recording was ignored. Few people paid any attention to Laura Nyro's version of Stoned Soul Picnic, but the song sold a million for The 5th Dimension...
...time, Canada's Joni Mitchell had much the same problem. She ranked as one of the best young composers in the business, and her tender ballad, Both Sides Now, was successfully recorded by Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby and Judy Collins. But she never recorded the song herself, even though she has a fluty, vanilla-fresh voice with a haunting, pastoral quality...
Today, though, she is beginning to catch on as a singer as well as a song-smith. Joni was the unquestioned hit of last January's Miami Pop Festival, and last weekend she started a concert tour that will take her to Boston, New York, Chicago, Ottawa and Montreal. At the end of April, she tapes a television show in Nashville with Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash. Her latest album has an advance sale of 100,000 copies, a month before its release. Furthermore, she has risen from obscure poverty to ownership of a music company valued...
Peace--A satire on war taken from the Aristophanes play. Funny and with a nice score by a very different theatrical song writer, Al Carmines. At the ASTOR PLACE THEATRE, 434 Lafayette...