Word: songs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...began when a three-year-old won an amateur contest in Philadelphia with his rendition of a song called I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal You. Last week in Las Vegas, Sammy Davis Jr. celebrated his 50th birthday and 47th year in show business, and concluded that getting there was half the fun. "Sure," he admitted, "I get bored sometimes saying, 'Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, here's a little song I have for you.' But it's good money in the bank, and show biz is the only life...
...claims he did not commit. "You people out there, you have the connection and the complexion to get the protection," quoth Ah before surrendering the stage to a four-hour musical downpour that starred Bob Dylan, sounding like the old adenoidal prince of protest when he delivered his new song, Hurricane. Also on hand: Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Ronee Blakley and Roberta Flack. Sixty miles away in the Clinton, N.J., Correctional Institution, Carter listened to the concert by telephone-and continued to wait for the Governor to act on his appeal for a retrial...
...least one song from Joni Mitchell's new album, The Hissing of Summer Lawns, will never be relegated to background music, if only because of its insistent growling. "The Jungle Line" combines a National Geographic tape of the warrior drums of Burundi with Mitchell playing Moog synthesizer and guitar. She sings a poem with images such as "Thru I-bars and girders, thru wires and pipes/Thru the mathematic circuits of the modern nights" and allusions to the French primitivist painter Henri Rousseau as well as The African Queen. But "The Jungle Line" drones after the first few lines, and unfortunately...
...title song tells a similar story about a man's putting his wife in a ranch house on a hill, overlooking the valley bar-b-ques, blue swimming pools, and "the hissing of summer lawns...
...Electra/Asylum Records has chosen to promote, not these impersonal poems, but the two singles most like Mitchell's previous outpourings of love and love's conflicts. "In France They Kiss On Main Street" is a catchy song which revels in young love--"amour, mama, not some cheap display." The other single, "Don't Interrupt The Sorrow," appeals to animals if not to fight at least to rise; each distinctly narrated verse repeats the melody...