Word: training
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...head of programming, Silverman does not just schedule shows the way a train dispatcher schedules runs into Grand Central Station. Often?to the dismay of producers, directors and writers ?he becomes producer, director and writer. He reads the script of every new show, pilots of shows, and potential pilots of shows. "I never worked so hard in my life as when Freddie was working for me at CBS," says Bob Wood. "He'd give me scripts to take home at night, and then call a half-hour after I got home to ask how I liked them. He knows...
...work completed, owners and dogs splashed around for the fun of it. A few continued to go through the test exercises, getting in some additional practice for the final 1977 water test next month outside Detroit. Elaine Lehr, a Mount Holly, N.J., breeder who spends an hour a day training her handsome Landseer Newfoundland, Sebastian, explained the sport's appeal: "Newfoundlands are smart with sweet dispositions. Training them isn't work. Besides, they are among the few dogs you can train to do something that still has a place in this world. As long as people swim, there...
...Mystery Train...
...song that came out of those first sessions, That's All Right, Mama, became a substantial local hit. So did the next four singles. By the time the last, Mystery Train, was released, Presley had connected with a deadeye promoter named Colonel Tom Parker, who landed him a national contract with RCA Records for the outlandish sum of $35,000. In the winter of 1956, not six months after Mystery Train came out, Elvis Presley released Heartbreak Hotel and sent American popular culture into a collective delirium that came, after a while, to be called "the Rock...
Those early Sun sides, typified by the wonderfully spooky, smoky Mystery Train, were arguably the best music Elvis ever made. The more familiar songs, like Heartbreak Hotel, Hound Dog and Don't Be Cruel are great tunes, joyful and sassy. They have become cultural artifacts, but no amount of historical respectability can fully dim their raucous vitality. They also represent a high point. Only four or five years after they came out, Presley's music had virtually become a patented mixture of heavy breathing and hokum...