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...clear station. The century starts off blue: Robert Johnson selling his soul to the devil at the crossroads. Then the jazz age: Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and, later on, Benny Goodman and "Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees." Midcentury, things start to rock with Chuck Berry, "Wop-bop-a-loo-bop a-lop bam boom!" the Beatles, Aretha Franklin, "a hard rain's a-gonna fall," Bob Marley, Stevie Wonder. It might be better to forget the '80s--the posturing heavy-metal bands, Debbie Gibson, "Let's get physical--physical," the guy with the haircut in Flock of Seagulls...
Miseducation is a musical education. The CD's songs range from the Jamaican patois-tinged rap of Lost Ones to the unexpected hip-hop harmonizing of Doo Wop. Hill proves herself a master of many genres, but she's no dabbler--what makes this album a wonder is how personally she takes everything. Hill's songs detail, painfully, intelligently, her problems with manipulative men, her childhood in New Jersey, her decision, as a young single mother, not to abort her baby boy. "Sometimes it's hard to really make any statements when you know that the industry caters...
...Capeman, PAUL SIMON's new musical about a New York City gang killing in the 1950s, had a long, troubled road to Broadway, and its troubles didn't end on opening night. Some last-minute doctoring helped a bit (especially in the doo-wop-flavored first act), but the show never comes to life onstage, and it was drubbed by critics. Yet its backers are vowing to keep the show running at least until the Tony nominations in May. "We're obviously disappointed," said DAN KLORES, one of the producers. "But we're going to fight." A determined group...
...Puerto Rico/ Came here when I was a child..." Simon was preparing the mix for a song from The Capeman, his new musical that recounts a bloody tabloid crime from the 1950s, explores questions of guilt and redemption and introduces a rich dose of Latin rhythms and doo-wop music to Broadway. One riff from the electric keyboard caused him to make a face. "It's too synthy, too 'woo-woo.'" he said. "Have you got some nice strings?" Another muddy spot he wanted rerecorded: "The piano's too busy. You lose the lyrics." Putting the finishing touches...
Ambivalence is never a completely favorable trait in the musical world, especially for an inherently questionable soundtrack, but it somehow keeps Bean from the movie music graveyard. The surf-rock doo-wop of the Beach Boys' "I Get Around" and the 80s staple "Walking on Sunshine" from Katrina and the Waves lend a familiar sound to a bunch of otherwide deservedly unknown songs. Don't think that unpopularity leaves other tracks necessarily disappointing. "I Love L.A." by the revivors of this past summer's Latin element, O.M.C., has a catchy groove, Boyzone's "Picture of You" frolicks in generic...