"You know some people, they just won't understand," he sang in "Messages," one of his more appealing tunes.
A similar plea turns up in the refrain to "Real Talk," one of the album's most appealing tunes, built around a skeletal, syncopated groove.
Their appealing tunes, like "I Can Hear the Bells" and the rollicking "Welcome to the '60s," sound authentic to the story's era and certainly remain catchy to the ear.
Allen, of the eponymous, now defunct Allen, Brady & Marsh agency, was a gentle man with a warm sense of humour and a knack for coming up with appealing tunes that captured the spirit of well-known brands.
He also gave the impression of modest decorum, especially in the concert's first half, featuring a succession of appealing but rather indistinct post-bop tunes in the Wayne Shorter vein.
But the serendipity of radio is still appealing, the ability to turn on and tune in without having to monitor, tweak and pester.
Throughout her appealing new album, "Tasty" (Arista), she flattens the tunes while emphasizing the beats -- whether she's sighing or whispering or rapping or chanting, her voice makes a great rhythm instrument.
It has by design a nice geometrical structure appealing from an engineering viewpoint; it is easy to tune, computationally very thrifty, and with guaranteed (at least local) convergence around every trajectory.
In the children's roles Sandra Joseph, as Flora, had an easier time staying in tune than Jacob Ashworth, whose Miles nevertheless had its appealing qualities.
He called me and people like me "lowdown, yellow-bellied, lily-livered intellectual coward(s)" because we don't make a habit of tuning into a bald, fat, loudmouth who makes millions appealing to hatred and ignorance.
