Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Speaking of singers, one who is more than a novelty is Danny Small, whose first record, Woman, She Was Born for Sorrow (United Artists UAJ 15004), was released a few few months ago. Small sings quietly, unpretentiously, and sentimentally. His style is not demanding: he doesn't try to flatten the listener, only to engage his attention, like a good conversationalist...
...surely that is something at my window lattice." Open then he flings the shutter, and with many a flirt and flutter, in there steps a stately raven of the saintly days of yore. "Prophet!" says he, "thing of evil! Prophet still, if bird or devil! Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, it shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore!" Quoth the raven...
...that her quavers often sound intended. Much as she denies learning from other singers, her style is unmistakably Lena Home's, and she makes superb use of it. She closes her show with a slow version of Happy Days Are Here Again that lends the song an ambivalent sorrow only a very wise girl could dream...
Therefore we, with sorrow...
...only genuine aristocrats this country has produced . . . The Negro's past, of rope, fire, torture, castration, infanticide, rape; death and humiliation; fear by day and night, fear as deep as the marrow of the bone; doubt that he was worthy of life, since everyone around him denied it; sorrow for his women, for his kinfolk, for his children, who needed his protection, and whom he could not protect; rage, hatred, and murder, hatred for white men so deep that it often turned against him and his own, and made all love, all trust, all joy impossible-this past, this...