In the 2005 songFireman, Wayne sings: “Come on mama, let the Carter make ya/Toss you like a fruit salad, strawberry grape ya.” Lil’ Kim (c) FayesVision/WENN In the 1996 songDreams, Kim rapped: “He be lookin’ kind of fruity but he can still eat the booty.” Tyler, The Cre...
A Methodist, actor William Christopher (October 20, 1932-December 31, 2016) was best known for playing the kindly and gentle Catholic priest Father Francis Mulcahy, maneuvering amid the secular goings-on of his fellow service members near the Korean War front, on the TV series “MASH.” After...
Similarly, “Penny Lane” sings about Paul’s memories surrounding the actual place in Liverpool, but in fact unrealistically. The line “beneath the suburban sky” seems to imply a sunny summer day, but followed by “the fireman rushes in from the pouring rain” implying rain and “selling ...
“So many people identified with and related to ‘Respect,’” Franklin wrote in her autobiography. “It was the need of a nation, the need of the average man and woman in the street, the businessman, the mother, the fireman, the teacher. Everyone wanted respect. It was also one of t...
PLAY EXCERPT: Ralph Stanley sings “O Death” The following year he and Jim Lauderdale would win a Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album for “Lost in the Lonesome Pines.”“I call him the king of mountain soul,” Lauderdale said. “He had that magical quality about him, that when you heard ...