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...contract for $2,500. Ray brought with him a pioneering blend of gospel melodies, rhythm-and-blues raunch, a suavely swingin? piano groove ? la Nat Cole and the imposing sound of a big band behind him (though typically he worked with only six sidemen). Oh, and an epochal vocal style that would make him the 20th century?s dominant and longest-lived emissary of soul music to pop music...
...Henry Pleasants, in his ear-opening book "The Great American Popular Singers," gets to the heart of Charles? vocal achievement: ?Sinatra, and Bing Crosby before him, had been a master of words. Ray Charles is a master of sounds. His records disclose an extraordinary assortment of slurs, glides, turns, shrieks, wails, breaks, shouts, screams and hollers, all wonderfully controlled, disciplined by inspired musicianship, and harnessed to ingenious subtleties of harmony, dynamics and rhythm... It is either the singing of a man whose vocabulary is inadequate to express what is in his heart and mind or of one whose feelings...
With the Ivy League and the Big 10 agitating for reform in the NCAA’s television policies, the move was widely perceived as a means to buy off the organization’s two most vocal opponents. But lingering resentment over the illegal monopoly and dissatisfaction with the commercialization of the college game due to its widespread appeal was reported to have guided the decision to remain committed to the previous non-compliance policy, while maintaining suspicion that a schism was in the works...
...expansive, 6-min. end-of-summer anthem has a chorus with a hint of optimism--"Light up, light up, as if you have a choice/Even if you cannot hear my voice/I'll be right beside you dear"--as well as the requisite lyric about long goodbyes and a soaring vocal by singer Gary Lightbody. It's also being pushed heavily by iTunes (it's currently the site's free download of the week) and record-label boss Jimmy Iovine, who, according to one station manager, "believes it can be as big as Coldplay's Yellow." He may be right...
...persona or being an artist? If she and we are lucky, she will someday become a true performer, for whom there is no difference between the two. That is why it's a false choice to ask if American Idol is a popularity contest or a singing competition. Vocal coach Byrd has a better term for it. "Welcome," she says, "to Star School." --Reported by Jeanne McDowell/Los Angeles