Word: songs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trouble with rock 'n' roll in A Star Is Born is that there isn't any. The soundtrack is filled with homogenized harmonics passing for rock, but not a single song is good enough even to be counterfeit. There are whimpy ballads and, on occasion, an up-tempo number that might make the Peter Duchin Orchestra restless. No recognizable rock, however, which is a distinct handicap in a movie that deals with two pop superstars who are supposed to be singing it, playing it and living...
...respond instantly to his mystic brand of nationalism in times of travail-provided, of course, that the call to glory came from an inspired and iron-willed leader. Last week a generally disgruntled French populace awoke to the clarion of a familiar bugle, and lo, it was playing their song...
Sing an old song...
They are, however, a romantic people. During the evening I learned the story behind the song "Maria Bonita," which is 30 years old and more popular than ever in this latest version sung by Julio Iglesias. The songwriter, Augustin Lara, "one of the ugliest men in Mexico," fell in love with Maria, the most beautiful woman. "They married but she had other loves. You can't love as much if you have others...
...morning after the party, Jenny had a request: would I help her write down the words to an American hit song she admired? Listening carefully for the first time to "Love Hurts," by Nazareth, I realize that it is powerful, thoughtfully-structured music. Peruvian girls are crazy about it. I cannot condemn this "cultural imperialism," if that's what it is, because it is perpetrated by the music I grew up on. Others might have been weaned on Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, cello lessons and madrigal singing around the family piano, but I spent my Wonder Years humming...