Word: songful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NEGRO ENSEMBLE COMPANY alternates Peter Weiss's Song of the Lusitanian Bogey and Daddy Goodness, by Richard Wright and Louis Sapin, through Sept...
JOHNNY CASH AT FOLSOM PRISON (Columbia). Ex-Con Cash recorded these songs at California's Folsom Prison, and the echo of prisoners' applause against concrete walls adds a bitter and powerful background. A guard's announcement that "88419 is wanted in Reception" serves as sharp counterpoint to such lyrics as "The newspapers called it a jailbreak plan,/ But I know it was suicide." Most chilling song: 25 Minutes to Go, a swinging minute-by-minute account of an execution by hanging. In its own way, a sad, brilliant album...
EDDY ARNOLD: THE ROMANTIC WORLD OF (RCA Victor). Arnold is one of the most successful slickers to tackle a country song. He is invariably sentimental, professional and clean, with a manly but moralizing voice. In this album, he sings more Muzak than bluegrass, including What Now My Love? and that sticky Honey again...
There is much talk about the burning (even fire stations), looting, shooting and overall rioting. But how long could the Black man sing the same old song, "WE SHALL OVERCOME." He in many instances has changed that tune to "WE SHALL OVER RUN" and wherever his beautiful black hands strike a note, the cold, bitter, angry music leaves a melody that lingers...
...series of musical numbers work for humor in several dimensions at once, as they treat cliches of musical tradition, situation comedy, character humor and verbal wit. Judy Kahan parodies a torch song singer of the long-legged husky-voiced school in "Euclid's Elemental." Perched on the piano, she crooned movingly about the hypotenuse of a right triangle and touched the audience deeply as she sang "let the whole be equal to the sum of the pa-a-arts...