Word: albums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although she has been singing professionally half her life, Ernestine has caused so little public stir that she only recently caught the ear of the recordmakers (a first Anderson album, misleadingly titled Hot Cargo, was issued this summer by Mercury). Last week Ernestine was singing once a week for $25 at Los Angeles' Little Avant Garde Club. She gave the patrons mostly standards-But Not for Me, Gone with the Wind, Take the A Train-that dramatically displayed her talents. She can swing upbeat ballads in a light-textured voice or noodle a bit of the blues in tones...
...expansive, thickly melodic score which rarely bears any relation to the frenzies on stage but occasionally strikes some fine Straussian and Puccinian sparks. Recorded by a top-notch cast (including Dutch Soprano Gré Brouwenstijn, Tenor Hans Hopf, Baritone Paul SchÖffler, Bass Oskar Czerwenka), the album provides opera buffs with a rare look at a gifted but remote composer...
Trying to escape her mink-lined fate as an offstage noise, Gloria has just recorded a new Columbia album, appeared last week on Art Linkletter's House Party, when she sang (through electronic ingenuity) all four parts of a quartet accompanying herself. "I like making money," she admits. "But I'd like to be known for all the things I've done. Nobody knows Gloria Wood...
...prize is named for Dana Reed, former executive editor of the CRIMSON and chairman of the 1943-44 Harvard Album, who was lost in action during the World...
Plans for an LP record of contemporary American music sung by the Glee Club have been abandoned by the Cambridge Records Company. However, the company plans to record the HGC's second album of Christmas carols in stereophonic sound...