Word: boop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boops, No Baby Talk. Jo Stafford's style is also typical of popular singing, 1946 model. The days of Helen Kane's boop-boop-a-doop, Helen Morgan's teary-voiced moaning or Bonnie Baker's baby talk are past. The style,now-practiced also by Margaret Whiting and Peggy Lee -is to sing straight, and let the band do the fancy work. Her detractors say Jo Stafford sings like a pitch pipe...
...science. It was to Magician Dunninger that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Edison and Harry Houdini left secret messages before their deaths to test the possibility of communication with a world of spirits. One medium's version of Edison's message: "My niece, Betty. Where are you? Boop. Boop. Boop...
Mozart: Concerto in B Flat Major for Bassoon and Orchestra (Ferdinand Oubradous, with orchestra conducted by Eugene Bigot; Victor: 4 sides). Mozart's tunes let Bassoonist Oubradous purl sweetly as well as boop for a laugh...