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...Brown), it definitely makes up for in character. Funk was played to bring smiles to people's faces and motion to their feet, and Let's Get A Groove On certainly does so. With such "super heavy funk" tunes as "Let a Man Do What he Wanna Do" and "Steam Train," Fields has put together an album full of some great funk grunts, groans, squeals and moans that will, at the very least, make you smile. The album has been described as "a raw-ass piece of funky-soul served straight-up on a platter of nasty-nasty...

Author: By Ben A. Cowan, | Title: Album Review: Let's Get A Groove On by Lee Fields | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

...Brown), it definitely makes up for in character. Funk was played to bring smiles to people's faces and motion to their feet, and Let's Get A Groove On certainly does so. With such "super heavy funk" tunes as "Let a Man Do What he Wanna Do" and "Steam Train," Fields has put together an album full of some great funk grunts, groans, squeals and moans that will, at the very least, make you smile. The album has been described as "a raw-ass piece of funky-soul served straight-up on a platter of nasty-nasty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lee Fields Let's Get A Groove On Disco Records | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

...quotidian Broadway of Dollar-a-Pound and the Sackler Museum; no, this one reaches like some avenue of heroes from Charlestown to Arlington, linking those thriving metropolices as the Appian Way once linked Rome and some other city. It was at this point I was running out of steam; maybe it was Lorentzen's 14 points weighing me down, dragging me back. I didn't know, but I fought on. There was Medford to the left of me; Medford to the right--I smiled at the choice made for me. I knew where I was going next...

Author: By T.j. Kelleher, | Title: Four Dollars and Change | 4/15/1999 | See Source »

...auction class, 10 sets of parents (some of them, presumably, loyal alumni) would be grateful to the college rather than deeply offended, and the college would have a bundle of cash that it could use to provide scholarships for worthy applicants who'd got in under their own steam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bottom 10 | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

...doing. After the war he started sitting in with the Count Basie septet, and Basie hired him as a vocalist. Every Day made Joe an instant star. His voice was a magnificent instrument. It had everything--range, tone, vibrancy, sweetness--it was just mind boggling. He turned up the steam, made you want to get as much out of your voice as he did out of his. So when Dave Lambert, Annie Ross and I were experimenting with my lyricized versions of Basie instrumentals, I included Every Day. It was the hit tune of our all-time hit album, Sing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eulogy: Joe Williams | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

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