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A word about words on the Word blog
Posted by GD Nicholson Esq. on 4 December 2008 - 6:20pm.
This may have been done before, but one of the highlihts of Baker/Ball's first R2 show the other saturday was mr Baker imploring us to call in with our "greatest single word ever uttered in music".
Baker volunteered Lulu's "weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeellllllllllllllllll" from "Shout", and IIRC Ball voted for "Lou-ay" from Louie Louie but what's yours?
Mine would be either the sotto voce "beautiful" courtesy of Mavis Staples at the end of The Last Waltz version of The Weight, or Mr William John Paul Gallagher adding syllables a plenty to the word "sunshine".
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Forever
The first word that comes to mind is "forever" in "Ace of Spades". Sing it:
You know I'm born to lose,
And gambling's for fools,
But that's the way I like it baby,
I don't wanna live forEVAH!
Turnittup!
From Caravan on Van's "It's Too Late To Stop Now"
During the quiet instrumental break, someone shouts "Turn it up Van" and, after a beat, Yer Man replies "... it's turned up already"
This isn't the same performance but it's an *almost* as good "Turnittup!"
And the answer is...
... Irma Thomas's singing of the word 'wrong' starting at 2.46 on A Woman Will Do Wrong - so powerful you can hear it almost blow the mic.
More Mavis
EV-ER-Y since I...fell for you.
They is stoned......
IMMACULATE
Texas radio and the big beat/Doors from L.A.Woman.
Very ipmpressive to a cloistered 14 year old then, still strangely powerful today.
Baby
As sung by Kirsty McColl at the end of the instrumental bit in "They don't know". I believe she also sang that bit in Tracey Ullman's version as Tracey couldn't hit the note.