Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grey, glum village square of the town of Kildare (pop. 2,617), a big red sound truck stood waiting last week, its horns pointed directly at the church. "It's the only way to get a crowd to listen to a speech these days," explained the politician in charge. "Catch them coming home from Mass." Finally the church bell rang, and a small crowd-oldsters and children mostly, the young adults having sped by on their bicycles-gathered to hear the candidate for the grand, if ornamental, job of President of the Republic of Ireland. Portly General Sean MacEoin...
...aged customers, who turn up loyally week after week to listen and shuffle to the music they danced to a generation ago. To preserve that music in its raw state, Folkways set up recording equipment in New Orleans, issued an album titled Music of the Dance Halls. The recorded sound is muddy and the selections are uneven, but at its best the album offers a fascinating sample of some fine, forgotten talents (including Billie and Dee Dee Pierce) and an evocation of the smoky nights when the splintery little dance halls used to shiver to the oldtime barrelhouse love laments...
Listeners curious to hear how Sammy Davis might have sounded if he had been included in the sound-track album can buy a Decca collection of excerpts, with Davis assisted by Carmen McRae. Both singers have a taste for vibrato, gratuitous grunts and wailing crescendos that achieve the remarkable effect of smearing some of the most singable lines ever written. On a United Artists album, Diahann Carroll, who appears as Clara in the movie, gets a chance to sing her own part and a number of other songs with the André Previn Trio (Previn was musical director...
Among no-words, all-jazz editions, Guitarist Mundell Lowe and a seven-man group are effective in a Camden album that has the musicians swinging in long, limber lines of nicely muted sound. The most imaginative Porgy is supplied by Trumpeter Miles Davis on a Columbia LP arranged by Gil Evans; in this case the Gershwin themes serve only as a departure point, usually for attenuated Davis solo nights...
...Sound and the Fury. A laundered but effective version of Faulkner's novel about a hard man (Yul Brynner) and a wild, bewildered girl (Joanne Woodward) who fight each other as well as the genteel Southern decay around them...