Word: songfulness
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...centerpiece of Franklin's first album for Atlantic Records was her cover of Otis Redding's Respect, a song that, released in the midst of the racial and sexual tumult of 1967, meant so much to so many people. It remains her signature anthem--and for good reason--though its overexposure means that her versions of Ray Charles' Drown in My Own Tears and Sam Cooke's A Change Is Gonna Come and her emotionally delicate performance of Do Right Woman--Do Right Man are criminally overlooked...
...that the Ramones spent about $6,000 recording this debut, which leads to an obvious question: Where'd all the money go? On the original, these 14 tracks sound as if they were mixed on a runway at LaGuardia, but the playing is impressively clean, given its speed (no song lasts longer than 2:40). Joey's singing also proves you don't need range to sound exuberant...
...director, the stars, the country. Another Italian film of less reputable pedigree turned into a hit: the shock-documentary Mondo Cane, on which we can blame not just a raft of cheap-n-sleazy Mondo movies but the wedding-reception standard "More," which had been Mondo Cane's theme song...
...march became simply a rally, and there was only a single act of near-violence: A fanatic lunged at a drag queen belting out a gay-pride song on stage at Friday's event in the sports arena of the Hebrew University, but even in spangled high heels, the drag queen nimbly evaded the attacker, and a security guard yanked the assailant offstage by the seat of his trousers...
...drum kit, and the tone was set for the rest of the night. Auerbach, if not a guitar god then surely a demi-god, let loose even more than on the band’s four full-length albums, taking the unchained punch of the band’s songs to a whole new level. Classic favorites like “Set You Free” and a cover of Chuck Berry’s “Have Love Will Travel,” both from “Thickfreakness,” elicited the most response from...