I had someone to wail down the phone to, and I did.
As her mates cranked out unadorned swamp rock, Ms. Ditto shimmied and wailed, stripping down to her bra and insisting, "You know it's gonna feel good".
The smoke is billowing, the bells are tolling, the bagpipes are wailing and, down below in the pit, the heads of the groundlings are peeking through a black tarpaulin like the lost souls on Judgment Day.
All at once a female voice screamed, "Oh my God," and the music crashed into a monstrous wailing bass, down near the limits of human hearing, while the beat slowed to half-speed and lurched like a stumbling giant.
We started hearing ambulances wailing down the road and seeing police cars flying up the street.
Neighbors said Knil's father returned home and came wailing down the stairs, repeating that his son was dead.
But outside, police sirens wail down Tottenham high street, there are men with walkie-talkies keeping track of the pupils and, across the yard, bare-chested teenagers preen before the mirrored walls of a busy boxing gym.
Since then, he has been coaching his first batch of Mercer County enrollees, age 9 to 17, on everything from belting Janis Joplin-like wails to recreating, down to the last chaotic screech, Randy Rhoads riffs.
His voice started with an open-throated wail, then clamped down with a keening tug as he rose into a cry, then swooped down into his rich baritone.
