The Pointer Sisters performing in New York City in 1983, the year the group released its album em Break Out /em , which included four top 10 hits.
If you spun the dial of your AM/FM radio on any given day in the early 1980s, chances are you heard a Pointer Sisters record. The group was in heavy rotation in a variety of formats whose playlists included Duran Duran, Bruce Springsteen and the Human League or Patti LaBelle and Earth, Wind and Fire. The electro-pop sound of the Pointer Sisters Jump (For My Love), Automatic or Neutron Dance dominated the charts during the first half of the decade. The popularity of these records rested in the accessibility of their lyrical content and melodic structure and the hypnotic nature of their rhythms. Anyone could sing Jump for My Love after hearing the chorus once; after Neutron Dance was featured prominently in Eddie Murphy s breakout film
Get a flavour of RSC s new jazz-inspired Midsummer Night s Dream this weekend
| Updated: 09:31, 06 January 2021
The first item on the RSC programme in 2021 is a juicy one: a concert of work in progress from Swinginâ The Dream, a jazz-infused production of A Midsummer Nightâs Dream which ran on Broadway in 1939, and which is being livestreamed on Saturday at 7pm. Artistic director Gregory Doran calls from a riverside dressing room to tell Gill Sutherland about it and the mood at the theatre.
How is it in the building? Is it a bit sad?
It looks like a puppy that youâve left at home for a rather long time during the day and itâs rather bleary-eyed but very, very pleased to see you. Itâs just lovely to see everyone even though we are all wearing masks and are socially distanced. Weâve appointed among ourselves our own Covid marshals, because you do forget. You want to go and hug people but you canât.You drop your guard at the end of the show an
10 Must-Hear Old-School Country Christmas Albums David Cantwell
Country music and Christmas music are deeply entwined. For starters, both genres foreground family and tradition, novelty and loss, and both take it on faith that we probably aren’t ever going to get everything on our Christmas list: The contingent cheer of Merle’s Haggard’s “If We Make It through December” falls right in line with other holiday-song sentiments like “I’ll be home for Christmas… if only in my dreams” and “Someday soon we all will be together… if the fates allow.”
Where would Christmas be without country music? Singing cowboy Gene Autry is more responsible for establishing the Christmas record as an annual and lucrative pop subgenre than anyone not named Bing Crosby. And, right this second, Nashville Sound classics such as “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” Jingle Bell Rock,” “Pretty Paper” and “Blue Christmas” remain in heavy rotation on your l
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