Word: ballads
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...dashing and princely, sang with a mellow, Kuldipped voice that charmed tots as it has previously entranced bobby-soxers. Crooner Singh's career was launched in 1956, when he appeared on Groucho Marx's TV quiz show as a contestant. Groucho persuaded him to croon a ballad; the mail response was so enthusiastic that Kuldip decided to forge into show business...
George Brown as the Vicar is particularly good in his opening ballad while his singing and acting are generally excellent. Alison Keith's Mrs. Partlett is a perfect characterization of the elderly pew-opener while Victoria Spurgeon as her daughter Constance is only competent. Stevens Garlick provides a perfect performance as the doddering, deaf old Notary...
Many viewers find it more than a little frightening. American Bandstand assaults the ear with rock 'n' roll interrupted only by mournful ballads. This is bad enough, but the show is even more dismaying to the eye: furrow-browed teen-agers jolting to the jangling beat of lyrics like "Skinny Minnie, she ain't skinny, she's tall, that's all." Worse yet is the sagging, zombie-eyed shuffle brought on by a ballad like Oh, Oh, Falling in Love. Some adult squares get the feeling that they are peeking at a hotbed of juvenile...
...followed its bouncing cruise, wave to wave, from Oslo to the Caribbean to New York. More than two hours long-winded, the Windjammer splashes into numerous ports of call, catches some fine scenes of native dances and fireworks parties. Other good shots: Cellist Pablo Casals playing a Catalan ballad in a Puerto Rican garden; a panoramic tour of Norwegian fjords; a vibrant Caribbean sunset, gold and red against a serene black sea. The whole thing would have made a great 20-minute short...
...invitation is from a ballad called Come to Me. and the voice that has boosted it onto the charts belongs to Negro Singer Johnny Mathis. With the help of some canny promotion, 22-year-old Singer Mathis has also boosted himself during the past year into the most valuable new property in show business. Last week, for the sake of "prestige" (and $2,000 a week plus a percentage of the take), Johnny checked into the Venetian Room of San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel and showed the home-town folks how he had made it big so fast...