Word: vocalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strong cult following. The lyrics produced by Minnie Riperton, 26, are a bit less worldly. Her songs about personal motivation, spiced with a soupçon of I'm O.K.-You're O.K. philosophy, are deliciously upbeat. Few miss the message, since several years of operatic vocal training have given her a five-octave range...
...thing, Gregg's voice was gone, replaced by Betts's plain, unpretentious vocal that weaved in and out of songs so that you hardly noticed the transitions--a bluegrass voice, nondescript. The music itself was still rock--as up-tempo as ever, built around solos; more lyrical and melodic, but essentially structured in the same way. Yet the tone is utterly different--after listening to Betts for a while, even though one's usual appetite for complexity and energy is what's responding, it's impossible to endure the old relentless rock--it sounds fatiguing, heavy...
...show was good, too good--almost to the point of being decadent. Their sexful vocal arrangements and provocative lyrics ("I come like the pouring rain each time you call my name") was fast to send an almost orgiastic fervor throughout the audience. The atmosphere at times recalled images of the bawdy cabarets of the Weimar Republic when the Nazis were coming to power or of Times Square on any given Saturday night...
...Dilettanti Nuovi, a Renaissance vocal sextet...
Justices Marshall and Friendly were particularly vocal in challenging the arguments of the competitors, often inviting outbursts of laughter from the audience...