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When he was married in 1937 (to Lady Elizabeth Percy, daughter of a house whose quarrels with the Douglases and the Hamiltons were the subject of many a bloody Scottish ballad) chit-chat writers recalled tales of his eccentric invalid father and his mother, who, by report, loved animals so much that she sometimes identified herself with birds...
...Mexico has also produced a pair of torchy ladies who vocalize in the best black-velvet-gown-and-chiffon-handkerchief manner. One is Adelina Garcia, happily represented by a sad ballad called Desesperadamente (OKeh). The other is glamorous Elvira Rios, familiar to Man hattan nightclubbers. Her cello-voice throbs best on Incertidumbre and Vereda Tropical (Decca...
...onetime chorus girl, four-a-day vaudeville toe dancer, radio Juliet to Leslie Howard's Romeo, Daughter Churchill, 26, is the wife of Austrian-born, U.S.-naturalized Comedian Vic Oliver. For his Sunday-night variety show over BBC she wrote her ballad, humming the melody while Husband Oliver strummed it on a piano. Best lines, as sung and recorded by oldtime Cinemactress Bebe Daniels...
...Beiderbecke back in the Twenties, and since then some of his best work has been done in the company of swing artists (And if you didn't see Bing and Louie Armstrong in "Pennies From Heaven" you missed a treat). Today, of course, he's the only male ballad singer who is tolerated by members of his own sex. The luscious-lipped groaners of the Ray Eberle variety may be all right for a few frustrated high-school girls, but for those who want to hear somebody just plain sing a tune minus the phoney, studied emotional decorations, there...
...rehearsals with the band to get the timing, merely pulls out his pipe and tucks his gum against his teeth when the time comes to go on. Jack Kapp, for whom Bing makes Decca records, recalls that The Groaner's singing is so facile he recorded the complicated Ballad for Americans in four hours. The same song took Paul Robeson three weeks...