All those interminable refrains of 'float like a butterfly, sting like a bee' had been more than foolish songs.
"All those interminable refrains of 'float like a butterfly, sting like a bee,' had been more than foolish songs," Robert Lipsyte wrote for The New York Times after Clay's landmark triumph.
That year, their song "Foolish Little Girl" reached the pop/R&B Top 10, and they had a cameo in the film It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
Notably, she performed none of her early collaborations and breezed through her best-known songs — "Foolish," "Happy," "Rock Wit U (Awww Baby)" — in a quick medley.
The first recording on that label was jazz saxophonist Gene Ammons's rhythm-and-blues song "My Foolish Heart".
(The lyricist Eric Maschwitz is said to have memorialised an affair with Wong in his song These Foolish Things, but you won't hear it in this documentary).
She closed with a breathy, mildly melancholy cover of "It's Only Make Believe," the Conway Twitty song about foolish, unreciprocated love that Ms. Apple said she knew from the Screamin' Jay Hawkins version.
Ashanti's self-titled debut album, released last year, was a huge hit, thanks largely to a song called "Foolish," on which she pledged loyalty to a man who didn't deserve it: "I keep on running back to you". This was the antithesis of Destiny's Child's dogma: Ashanti sang like a woman who just couldn't help herself.
In 1986 he sang on Heaven 17's songs A Foolish Thing to Do and My Sensitivity, and he recorded duets with Maxine Nightingale and Brenda Holloway.
It's foolish to expect these songs to match Green's seventies masterpieces — there's nothing as spirited as "Stand Up" or as Holy Spirited as "Jesus Is Waiting".
