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...After four verses of 12-bar blues, the song rollicks into some of Charles? swingin? lounge piano, then returns to the vocal, in a squealing release - ?Say, have you heard, baby/ Ray Charles is in town/ Let?s mess around till the midnight hour/ See what he?s puttin? down? - that prefigures no fewer than three Atlantic songs: Charles? own ?Let the Good Times Roll? and ?Mess Around? and Wilson Pickett?s ?In the Midnight Hour.? The song ends with generic barks (?Come on! Come on, child!?) that are pretty much grunts with consonants. A listener needs no English...
...earlier Charles work was evident from the first note: on an electric piano that sounded like a guitar with a mitten muffling the strings. It was blues, all right, but with a Latin accent, thanks to great cymbal, conga and stick work by Milt Turner. It featured his urgent vocal, but not until almost 50 seconds into the song. The complex simplicity of the number made it seem both roughhouse and pristine...
...album also showed that Charles could lay his tortured vocal style on such chestnuts as the Arlen-Mercer ?Come Rain or Come Shine? and Irving Berlin?s ?Alexander?s Ragtime Band.? That?s an amazing cut. Written as a ?coon song? (minstrel number) in 1911, Charles made it a black song; he transformed this antique march into a big-band raver. The band (Burns did the brassy, bluesy charts) plays the melody and Charles comes in an antiphonal bar later, bleating "Come on an' hear!" By the end of the chorus he's quoting his own "This Little Girl...
...just want to be here as part of history,” said State Sen. Jarrett T. Barrios ’90, an openly gay politician and vocal advocate of same-sex marriage who was on hand to watch the festivities...
Several Cambridge representatives, including Barrios, have been especially vocal in their opposition to the amendment...