Word: wanna
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, if Comedian Bill Cosby is any indication, the Great New York City Cab Rider remains unmoved. "A cabbie sidled up to me the other day," Cosby relates, "and said, 'Wanna go to Harlem, sir?' I told him I was off duty...
...Misbegotten, and An Enemy of the People. Equally important, her cousin David Bennett, a fellow Corey student, appointed himself her unofficial protector and promoter. He turned up at her apartment early in the morning to roust her out for auditions. "David, David," she would say, "I don't wanna go, David, I'm fat and ugly, David, and I don't even want to be an actress." David refused to listen, and Sally's auditions eventually led to a couple of featured roles on television and a tiny part in Reform School Girl, "one of those...
Keep in mind the wishful kind. Don't wanna be like all the rest...
Brian Wilson's new songs feature the more familiar Beach Boys' melodies. "This Whole World" and "All I Wanna Do" mark a return to the old surf ballads. "Add Some Music to Your Day" and "Cool, Cool Water," two more of Brian's songs, also depend on the intricate harmonies that made the Beach Boys famous. But "Add Some Music to Your Day" is a clinically detailed study of music, full of absolutely ridiculous lyrics ("You're sitting in a dentist's chair/And they've got music for you there . . . Your doctor knows it keeps you calm/Your preacher adds...
...ground" and "noticed no shadow did he cast." Robbie also turns his hand to a lullaby (All La Glory) and to a glorious description of a traveling carnival, The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show, which features "saints and sinners, losers and winners, all kinds of people you might wanna know." It embarrasses The Band to have one member singled out over the others. Yet at one time or another it is hard not to pay particular attention to Garth Hudson's organ breaks as well as his fine horn playing, Richard Manuel's smooth piano and plaintive vocals, Levon...