Word: songs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...greatness, representing the ingenuity, daring, and stern moral fibre that Americans hoped typified the country. The kidnapping and subsequent murder of his infant son, five years after he flew "The Spirit of St. Louis" to Paris, certainly dispelled his "Lucky Lindy" image-the title of an enormously successful popular song in the late 20s. But it added yet another dimension to American's sense of him as a lone, proud hero...
...parade. The McCartneys have been secluded in New Orleans since mid-January, and this was their coming-out party. Paul is also making a record album, using local jazz musicians. Linda plays along on the organ. Paul was so impressed by the festivities that he wrote a new song, My Carnival, for his album. As to why they came to New Orleans, "It's a little crazy," says Paul...
...friend. Both men collaborated with Jerome Kern on a series of fabulously successful musicals in the teens and '20s, including Oh Lady, Lady and Sitting Pretty. Perhaps the Wodehouse words that most Americans know best-although few can identify him as the author-are the lyrics to the song Bill from Show Boat...
...bear to listen to myself," said Mabel Mercer on her 75th birthday. But every smart pop singer in the past 50 years has listened and learned from Mercer how to shape and pace a lyric. Her unique style of talking a song was developed to compensate for her failing soprano voice. Now, she says, "it's just a noise." Enough, however, to hold some 500 guests spellbound at her birthday party in Manhattan. Mabel's star pupil could not make the party, but he did not forget the singer who "taught me everything I know." Frank Sinatra sent...
Linda Ronstadt: Heart Like a Wheel (Capitol). Ron stadt sheds her foxy Barbie doll image for an assertive straight forward approach that displays her vocal diversity. Besides Ronstadt's supersmash single You 're No Good, cuts include the title song by the talented Anna McGarrigle, and Paul Anka's It Doesn 't Matter Anymore...