Word: songs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...highlight of the visit was an evening of entertainment in the pavilion. As a lively band beat out a variety of tunes, from rock to disco to jazz, the colonists burst into song, including a rousing chorus of America the Beautiful. Even the skeptical Ryan was impressed. He rose to tell his assembled hosts: "From what I've seen, there are a lot of people here who think this is the best thing that has happened in their whole lives." The audience applauded loudly. Jones stood up and led the clapping...
...singing the blues last week for Mabel Mercer or Alberta Hunter. The two were delighted with their portraits in "A Song I Can See: Great Women in Jazz," an exhibition of photographs by Barbara Bordnick at The Space gallery in Manhattan. Mercer, 78, still croons in cafes and listens to her old discs, though "only for correction. Never for pleasure." Hunter, 83, is back on the cafe circuit after having given up music 20 years ago to don a nurse's uniform. On Dec. 3, she takes on Washington at a Kennedy Center gala, and she knows her program...
...song's smash success coincided with disco's coming-out party, and became a kind of marching song for the disco revolution. Donna continues to ride high and handsome as the craze vaults all class barriers, from blue-collar to café society. Still big in the clubs, she has worked up a concert act that she is currently taking through 14 cities before invading the citadel, Las Vegas. Eager to wade into the musical mainstream, Donna dusts off The Man I Love and Some of These Days and presses them into a stage extravaganza that doesn't yield an inch...
There might even be an FM hit on this album. "Oh My Heart" is the rememberable kind of tune that is very easy to hum. The only thing that could stop this song from reaching the charts would be Anna McGarrigle's voice, which is the high vibrato that elementary school music teachers and maiden aunts usually have. Luckily, Kate, who has a lower, richer voice, sings lead vocals in most numbers. In fact, she easily outdoes Linda Ronstadt in "Just Another Broken Heart," a real you've-gone-and-broke-my-heard-and-I-just-can't-live-without...
...process, they'll be missing a lot of music that's powerful and unique. Aside from the infectious "Jocko Homo," Devo's album includes one song, "Mongoloid," that's a fine punk-influenced rocker, and another, "Space Junk," that's in the grand David Bowie tradition of futuristic disaster songs...