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derly sings about those post-break-up doubts that
stick in the mind like a thorn and prick the heart.
It sounds as if he is sadly singing from person
al experience, especially with lyrics like “Did you
say you loved me? I almost forgot... If love leaves
us for a moment/Is it gone forever?”
Sweet takes a turn for the pensive with the
retro “Everything Changes.” You can almost pic
ture the three chiffon-clad back-up singers danc
ing around the microphone to this ’50s style
tune.
Picture Sweet at center stage with his wing
tips and slicked hair crooning “So you look for
the answer/Then pull it apart? Tear it up ’til
there’s nothing there
‘cause it hurts your
heart.” Prom night, circa
1954.
Sweet displays his
bluesy side in “Giving It
Back.” It’s a nice try.
However, the instrumen
tation is almost too much.
It overshadows the vocals
and lyrics during most of
the song.
For a lesser singer it-
might work, but Sweet’s
clear vocals deserve the
spotlight.
“Smog Moon,” his final
number, hints of Toto
and REO Speedwagon
and their musical ilk. For
starters, there is the deli
cious melody that steals a
few bars from “Rosanna.”
Then come the tight har
monies. And the lyrics
help to further showcase
Sweet’s skills as a bal-
ladeer.
Sweet can be decep
tively upbeat. He can be deceptively laid back.
He is a musical trickster of sorts, but he can get
away with it on an album as fine as this one.
It’s not always fun, but it is 100% captivating.
PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
Cisneros helps
nab robbers in
street chase
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two
youths who grabbed trays of
watches from a
street vendor
probably didn’t
know a Cabi
net member
could run so
fast.
Housing
Secretary Hen
ry Cisneros
saw the teen
agers as he
was leaving a
hair salon Sat
urday night,
and chased them down two al
leys, across two streets and over
lawns as wristwatches flew
from purloined trays.
One youth was grabbed by a
police officer who joined the
chase.
The policeman collared the
other when the youth stopped
short on confronting Cisneros.
Police charged the two
youths, ages 15 and 17, with
robbery.
“What kind of citizen or gov
ernment leader would I be if I
didn’t try to help?” the 47-year-
old Cisneros said afterward.
Henry
Cisneros
Long doesn't
regret leaving
"Cheers"
RADNOR, Pa. (AP) — Here’s
the story ... of a star named
Shelley.
Shelley Long, who plays Car
ol Brady in The Brady Bunch
Movie, says people are STILL
asking her why she left that
Boston bar.
For the record: she’s doing
just fine, thank you, since her
criticized departure in 1987
from the hit TV series
“Cheers.”
“I’m never going to give the
answer that people or journal
ists want to hear,” Long says in
the March 11 issue of TV Guide
magazine. “I think they want to
hear that I made a mistake.”
She especially resents being
compared to former “NYPD
Blue” star David Caruso, who
jumped ship after one season to
begin a movie career.
“It’s just not occurring to
them that I was on the show for
five years,” she says. “I met
David at a charity function and
wished him well and said, ‘You
know — it’s probably going to
be tough out there, but you’re
going to do great.”’
Belafonte
defends NEA
art subsidies
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP)
— Harry Belafonte says Repub
licans in Congress should enjoy
their day-o in the limelight
without cutting money for the
arts.
“Careless, unthinking rascals
in Washington, in verbose, un
mindful and unintelligent ways,
are attacking
the funding of
the arts,” the
singer-actor
V
Harry
Belafonte
said Saturday
night.
Bel af onte
maintains
that federal
funds have
helped count
less artists
and writers
find their
styles.
“Subsidiz
ing the arts is one of the most
important subsidies this coun
try undertakes,” he said at a
lecture sponsored by West Vir
ginia’s first lady, Rachael Wor-
by.
Belafonte, now 68, led the
audience in a chorus of the “Ba
nana Boat Song” (aka “Day-O”).
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