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Album opener “Care” sports a funky, curiously familiar-sounding bassline that will stay in your head for hours. “All Wrong” resembles music for a spaghetti Western twisted up and turned irresistably danceable. The title track, which closes the album, leaves the listener smiling and humming—and wondering if he’s being laughed at, as it fades out to the repeated words...
DIED. TOM GLAZER, 88, folk singer who, with Leadbelly and Pete Seeger, helped revive the genre in the 1940s; in Philadelphia. His best-known song, On Top of Spaghetti, sung to the tune of On Top of Old Smoky, recounted a tale of an errant meatball...
...truck stops, Crandall gets out, and the Sidewalk Sunday School begins. "What was the Prodigal Son doing when he left home?" the 26-year-old minister asks a swarm of giggling children, age 5 and older. As they ponder the answer, he takes a spaghetti strainer out of a sack stuffed with Bibles and turns it into a spiky helmet by filling its holes with nails facing outward. Then he places the metal headgear on a nervous volunteer. A child shouts out the correct answer--"Feeding pigs!"--and, as a reward, gets to aim water balloons at the newly anointed...
...Cubby, making Bond a family business meant a personal touch--cooking spaghetti for cast and crew or flying an actor's hair stylist in on the Concorde. "He was a Big Daddy figure," says Lois Chiles (Holly Goodhead in Moonraker). But the Mr. Nice Guy routine stopped at the office door. "You felt that he was on your side," says Lois Maxwell, who played Miss Moneypenny in the first 14 films. "Except when it came to the money. Then he'd fight with your agent for every last penny...
...enthusiastic rendition of their single “Wasted and Ready” got things moving—nothing catches on like the angelic Kweller yelling the chorus: “She is a slut but her ex thinks its sexy / Sex reminds her of eating spaghetti / I’m wasted but I’m ready.” Other rock ‘n’ roll numbers were equally energetic, while Kweller’s solos, like “Panamanian Girl,” added a dash of appealing melancholy to the otherwise goofy evening...