Word: songs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marriott Hotel ballroom is a sea of white military formal wear, pink and blue evening dresses, candles and carnations over red carpeting. Nelson Riddle's orchestra swings into What Kind of Fool Am I? as Sammy Davis Jr. hails "our mutual friend" Richard Nixon, then reflects on the song: "I don't think anyone in this room has to re-examine their lives...
...album is a fine bit of syncopated genealogy, running past the sophisticated musical abstractions of Beiderbecke (Flashes, In a Mist) into the knife-edge humor of a minstrel-show song like Nobody and the surprising sleight-of-hand pride in a "coon song" like Shine. The music passes right through Jelly Roll...
...floor was so cold. I'd get out of bed at night and play it for him, when it was so cold getting out of bed ... on a Victrola ten years old-and the song he loved most came at the very end of this record, the last side of Camelot, sad Camelot: ... 'Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment that was known as Camelot...
...ever know everything about Jack. But ... history made Jack what he was ... this lonely, little sick boy ... scarlet fever ... this little boy sick so much of the time, reading in bed, reading history ... reading the Knights of the Round Table ... and he just liked that last song...
...Beast of Burden," which opens the second side, also explores Jagger's ambiguous stance towards women in a song which is perhaps the prettiest on the album. Over a shimmering reggae-flavored guitar work, Jagger sings, "I'll never be your beast of burden," at the start of the song, gradually building up the energy and tensions through the chorus, "Am I hard enough, Am I rough enough, Am I rich enough?" until he sings at the end, "I don't need no beast of burden...all I want is for you to make love to me." Jagger doesn...