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...troupe has recently concentrated on material from the presidential campaign. Set to the tune of the Pointer Sisters' "I'm So Excited," a Capitol Steps act pokes fun at Gov. Michael S. Dukakis: "I'm not exciting/I'm not exciting/But I'm not indicted...
Neither is Vice President George Bush spared the group's antics. To the tune of "Cat and the Cradle," they sing, "I wanna be just like you, Ron, you know I'll be just like...
...Good Morning to All and later added the familiar lyrics. The song was copyrighted in 1935 and earns $1 million a year in royalties. Japan's Casio Computer company, for instance, pays a 1 cents fee for each of the digital watches that it programs to play the tune. The song will earn royalties until 2010, when it will pass into the public domain...
...Neil Diamond's 1968 Red Red Wine. This is the same song UB40 couldn't put over five years ago. By one of those odd combinations of luck and fluke that make the music business so curious, + J.J. Morgan, a deejay at KKFR-FM in Phoenix, played the tune during a show in May, and, he reports, "within 24 hours, Red Red Wine was our most requested song. We didn't intend to make it a hit. It just happened...
...fine introduction to UB40's sun-splashed funk, as long as listeners follow its affable lead and plunge into such originals as Sing Our Own Song (on the 1986 LP Rat in the Kitchen) or Dance with the Devil on the most recent album. It is on those tunes, righteous and rhythmic, that the band really proves itself. Red Red Wine may be a good song to hang your hat on, but on a UB40 tune like Sing, a band could proudly stake a reputation...