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...GENIE Blinded at six by glaucoma, schooled in classical, gospel and every form of popular music, Charles came to Atlantic in 1953, when Ertegun bought his Swingtime Records contract for $2,500. Ray brought with him a pioneering blend of gospel melodies, R&B raunch, a suavely swingin? piano groove ? la Nat Cole and the imposing sound of a big band behind him (though typically he worked with only six sidemen). Oh, and an epochal vocal style that would make him the dominant and longest-lived soul singer of the century. Was Charles, as one of his own albums...
...from Cole Porter's text. Bing's asides are apt and inspired: when Armstrong sings "Frenchmens all/ Prefer what they call/ Lay jazz hot," Bing apostrophizes a très-français "formidable!" Satch, Trummy Young, Billy Kyle and the rest broil their venerable chops in a sweetly swingin' 12-bar blues. And Bing leads them, a simpatico impresario, with a suave verve. Beneath the famous Crosby savoir-faire, we for once sense the adolescent thrill he must have felt back in the mid-'20s, when he first heard Armstrong create the naughty form of music that Bing made...
...easier, so conflict was built in; castaways were selected for "strong personalities" (read: potential clashes), and they periodically voted to expel members. The last one left--picked by expelled players--wins $1 million. As for love, Burnett suspects that some contestants snuck away for a little vine swingin'. But, he says, "we were more interested in relationships in how they affected the group." Uh-huh. Judging by a preview shown to advertisers last week, the producers were after sparks and heat: the survivors are shown bickering, frolicking in bikinis and hanging their underwear on co-ed clotheslines...
...while books by and about the President overflow the bookshelf and framed photos and newspaper clippings deck the walls. Here, a snapshot of the swimming team; there, JFK attending the Harvard-Columbia football game in 1963; upon the bedroom door, the 1940 University Class Day Program announcing all the swingin' graduation activities. "There's a flavor to it," says Catherine L. McLaughlin, deputy director of the IOP. "That's why we didn't change it. We want to maintain the feeling of a dorm room." Vivian M. Song '02, modern-day inhabitant of F entryway, acknowledges the positive aura...
...movie-relevant songs (They Might Be Giants' "Dr Evil"). Unlike the hero of the execrable movie, the album remains firmly fixed in the '60s. It sadly lacks the Bacharach tunes and kitschy cover versions of the first two soundtracks, but it has a solid sense of pop music in Swingin' London, including the Monkees' "I'm a Believer" and the Zombies' "Time of the Season." The Guess Who's original version of "American Woman" also surfaces, the anti-American lyrics making more sense in the hands of Mike Myers' fellow Canadians than in Lenny Kravitz's. Even the '90s pieces...