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unearths some literary gems.
From A Natural Woman, by Carole King:
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[Re. a song she wrote during high school, "Leave, Schkeeve"]I had no idea what a schkeeve was, but it rhymed with "leave," and that's all that mattered.***As ambiance is to a room, mood is to a song. If you add too many lights and a pinball machine, the mood is lost.***[On a demo made for the Shirelles, she] tried to sound like the Shirelles' lead singer, Shirley Owens. One of the other Shirelles...told me later that when Shirley recorded the lead vocal, she was trying to sound like me sounding like her.***[Laurel Canyon] was the first time I had ever lived where the action was....As if to validate the concept, one of my neighbors...confided that he'd been one of the Action Kids on Dick Clark's ABC television show Where the Action Is.***
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