Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sweet Prince...
...recorded Jambalaya as a 12-year-old, she has simply overpowered every song that has come her way. Her big voice is best in the slow numbers like I'm Sorry and Losing You, but her delicately-wielded heavy bass is just as characteristic in the rockers--Dum, Dum, Sweet Nothins, That's All You Gotta Do--in which she employs another trademark, her non-piercing screams...
NEIL SEDAKA'S credentials hardly need airing. With a style closely related to Pitney's Sedaka has created a sound--from The Diary through Carol, Little Devil, Stairway to Heaven, Breaking Up Is Hard to Do, Happy Birthday, Sweet Sixteen, World Through A Tear--that inevitably blends his whole work into a single medley with scarcely detectable demarcations...
...ORBISON has long been a favorite for his bull voice. While many of his big songs--Pretty Woman, Sweet Dreams, Baby, Pretty Papers--work against his strength, the full-throttle heftiness of Running Scared, Crying, and most especially Leah, cannot be gainsaid...
...thesis is summarized in the first piece, "Confrontation, or Getting Acquainted." The music, a sweet-flowing jazz, begins by swinging the dancers to its beat. Suddenly, the dancers have taken command over the instruments--dancer Scott Kemper slumps and the sax follows with a long nasal whine, much like the clown and his circus band...