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...their careers to play in his backing bands, inspiring them with his dedication and music (Elton John, born Reginald Dwight, even took his last name in honor of Baldry). He recorded more than 40 albums and had a successful voice-over career, receiving a Grammy Award nomination for best spoken-word album for children for The Original Story of Winnie-the-Pooh. died. susan gordon lydon, 61, feminist writer and editor whose landmark 1970 essay for Ramparts magazine, "The Politics of Orgasm," turned a previously taboo subject into a public debate; of cancer; in Florida. She had the idea after...
...Spoken-word and rap is a new angle for HOP fundraisers in their 14-year history, which usually occur once per semester. “We usually try to pick a fun and interesting theme for our fundraisers,” Chou says, “and once people find out about the HOP [in this way] they are usually very excited...
JILL SCOTT THE BOOK: The Moments, the Minutes, the Hours, due in 2005 THE BUZZ: Before she sang neo-soul tunes, Scott was a spoken-word veteran of Philadelphia's boho cafs CRINGEWORTHY VERSE: What does the alley cat do when the unchained dog begins to growl? THE AUDIENCE: Grownup gals who want their groove back
Forget Spock. WILLIAM SHATNER'S new wing man is...Ben Folds? The Priceline.com pitchman has teamed with the piano-pounding rocker on a pop album due in October. Shatner's first record, a 1968 spoken-word effort that became an icon of classic camp, earned him Folds' respect--and a duet on the hipster's 1998 album. Now cerebral crooners like Aimee Mann and Henry Rollins will pitch in on Shatner's CD. "Ben told me to tell the truth," says Shatner, who wrote most of the lyrics. "I hope it's musically valid." The record's title does suggest...
...department famously lost former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 to Princeton in 2001 after, West has claimed, University President Lawrence H. Summers questioned the amount of time the scholar had devoted to political work outside the academy and the recording of a spoken-word album, Sketches of My Culture. Af-Am faculty did not reply to requests for comment for this story...