Word: vocalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know more than I did earlier." Last week the bebopping hornman kicked off a two-week engagement at Michael's Pub in Manhattan for an appreciative SRO crowd. Later this year PBS will air a tribute to him staged at the Wolf Trap music festival and featuring Vocalist Carmen McRae and Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis. The jazz legend still wails on his trademark bent-up horn, because, he says, "you hear the sound quicker. I never blow straight at anybody unless it's an angel up in the heavens...
Ironically, also like Janet Jackson's Control, it's not the seemingly aggressive female vocalist who's in charge, but a talented team of male cohorts, in this case Full Force, a group of five guys in tight spandex pants, shirts open to their waists, whose gold necklaces melted together could anchor a small boat. Their influence can be felt in all areas of the record. They are credited with production, writing, even the mixing and managing of Lisa Lisa...
...best college band on the East Coast," said lead vocalist John N. Axelrod '88. "We definitely didn't go into the contest for the money. We wanted as much exposure as we could get, and now maybe we can go national," he added...
...final competition was hosted by comedianSinbad, and scored by a panel of celebrity judgesincluding John Little and David Uosikkinen of theHooters; former Supreme Cindy Birdsong, and EricBloom, lead vocalist of Blue Oyster Cult
...sort of pop is how well they distinguish themselves from any one of the millions of Athens, Ga. groups already on their road to stardom. The Blake Babies did a pretty good job of differentiation. Their guitar riffs, though familiar, did not sink into Southern cliches, and their lead vocalist managed to resist comparisons to the B-52's. It was a matter of no small consolation that, with songs titled "Boiled Potato" and "Cocaine Slut," one did not have to worry about mumbled and pretentiously obscure lyrics. Killing knee-jerk comparisons is a tough job, and one that...