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...depth his melodies make up in lilting appeal. Phillips' wife Michelle, a willowy ex-model, is the spiraling soprano; Denny Doherty, 24, sings a secure tenor. Anchor girl is rotund (200 lbs.) Cass Elliot, 23, whose ringing contralto gives the quartet its oomph. Together they build a buoyant vocal blend that floats easily through intricate harmonic shifts, toying with rhythms that are as fresh and bracing as ocean breezes. The quartet is now on a highly successful college tour, stands to make $1,000,000 this year." Read more at timearchive.com...
...money as an arranger of Italian pop. As he notes in the 1995 documentary Ennio Morricone, it was one such chart--a raspy, twanging version of Woody Guthrie's Pastures of Plenty for U.S. singer Peter Tevis--that director Sergio Leone asked be adapted for his new western. Remove vocal, add whistling, rev up the guitar volume, and you have the theme for A Fistful of Dollars. This worldwide hit made the careers of Leone, Morricone and the obscure actor who played the Man with No Name. A guy called Clint Eastwood...
...celebrity blogger Perez Hilton, Jeopardy champ Ken Jennings, and an as-yet-unnamed Harvard professor. Saget has also been gaining attention recently for his straight-to-DVD spoof, “Farce of the Penguins.” The film is narrated by Samuel L. Jackson and features the vocal talents of a wildly diverse cast, including Dane Cook, Christina Applegate, Tracy Morgan, and most of the cast of “Full House.” “A lot of my friends did cameos,” he says, “just to be part...
...indie pop terms, Field Music ends up in the easy-listening category. When you detect some of the glaring “borrowing” going on, though, the band ultimately misses the mark. Whether in guitar lines, drum beats, string melodies, or vocal harmonies, you almost get the feeling that actual sections of Beatles songs have been spliced in, to little emotional effect. Other groups, including every band ever, have experimented with the musical precedent set by The Beatles, but usually with more inspiring and enjoyable products. Field Music’s attempt lacks depth and rarely contains...
Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society Diana L. Eck—long a vocal observer of the review—responded that professors could conceive of “parallel ways” in which students could navigate this curriculum without taking any course in many disciplines...