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Article: Willner's `Stay Awake': Mostly Marvelous Disney
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- The Washington Post
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- October 23, 1988
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Bonnie Raitt's interpretation of "Baby Mine" is part lilting
lullaby, part R&B confession, and as she sings atop Was (Not Was)'s
relaxed groove, Raitt makes the song very much her own without
obscuring its enduring charm. Sun Ra and his Arkestra do much the
same with "Pink Elephants on Parade," an appropriate fusion of
technicolor imagery and cinemascope sound: Ra's avant-garde version
of the Duke Ellington Orchestra gives the tune an expansive
arrangement without abandoning its implied silliness.
There are other superb Disney interpretations on producer Hal
Willner's "Stay Awake" (A&M Records, all three formats). They
include Garth Hudson's instrumental "Feed the Birds" (from "Mary ...