Word: songs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ladies" is a heart-felt ballad of fallen women whose flute and guitar lines immediately call to mind "Sossity: You're a Woman," the final song of the Benefit sessions. The chorus is also reminiscent of the Sossity refrain and is polyphonically mixed to give a dreamy portrayal of the ladies' allure. The tune closes with an upbeat rhythm phrase bolstered by the orchestra's solid horn section...
...ideals, and certainly little salvation for the proletariat the world over--just a lot of carnage and death and maybe some profits--didn't matter. All Ives's energy, all his critical will and assertive independence, poured into support for the war to end wars. Ives wrote a patriotic song called "He Is There," and he liked it so much that when the next war began, he just changed the words a little. On the interesting centennial five-record set that Columbia has just issued, there's a record of him playing and singing the World War II version...
...narrative line relies on flashbacks, a fictional device poorly suited to theater. Mack (Robert Preston), rendered obsolete by talkies, reminisces about his slapdash improvisatory triumphs and his turbulent on-again, off-again romance with Mabel (Bernadette Peters). After one prolonged absence, Mabel returns to be greeted with a rousing song sequence called When Mabel Comes into the Room. Jerry Herman and Gower Champion have all but plagiarized their own big Hello Dolly number...
Cooder is not bound to reproduce old music intact. He sometimes uses orchestration and can find new emphasis in a tune by changing the usual arrangement. Thus a World War II song called Comin' In on a Wing and a Prayer, which he sings low and slow, loses its Tin Pan Alley patriotism and becomes plaintive, full of battle fear. An old calypso tune, F.D.R. in Trinidad, is delivered with careful ingenuousness, and Cooder brightly, as if inadvertently, stresses the irony that time has worked on the lyrics: "Mr. Cordell Hull in attendance/ They took part in a peace...
...work of a Tex-Mex accordionist named Flaco Jimenez. He has also just returned from a trip to Hawaii, where he and some Hawaiians spent two weeks making and taping some music of the islands -"not really antique stuff," he says, "just Hawaiian drinking-and-good-time songs from before the war, the kind of thing you never hear back here." That is part of Cooder's unique gift: to make the country come together in its music, Delta to Dust Bowl, city to small town to island. This also makes him one of the most generative talents working...