Word: chorused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every night for a whole summer, learned how to gauge the reactions of the hotel's Broadway-wise customers, how to flash his bright smile at the right moment, how to pitch his voice for the best effect. Eddie landed wintertime jobs after that, e.g., singing during the chorus-girl numbers at Manhattan's Copacabana. But his real break came when Eddie Cantor spotted him three summers later at Grossinger's and took him on a vaudeville tour. Since then, Fisher's easygoing voice has made 14 hit records...
Serenade (Voices of Walter Schumann; Capitol, 2 EPs). Where a good many popular records have a chorus floating around in the background behind a band, this one pulls a switch, uses instruments only to dress up the vocal sound. The singing is smooth, the arrangements (of Paradise and seven other oldies) pleasantly different...
Hugh Lofting's Dr. Dolittle, beloved by children and by parents who read to children, trained a chorus of singing birds and let the birds themselves compose the music. He and the audience noticed that the canaries sometimes went through the motions of singing although they were making no audible sound. The birds were singing ultrasonically, and if Dr. Dolittle could go to Ohio State University this week, he would see the ultrasonic bird songs that he could not hear...
...more often a belting baritone, Joyce Bryant seems to have trouble relaxing onstage. To her credit, she tries: after a sweltering bout with Porgy, she begins a blander number, e.g., After You've Gone or You Made Me Love You. But before the end of the first chorus, the song seems to take its own head, and her voice mounts until it sobs and gargles on the edge of hysteria. Next moment she is off again on a frenzied version of Tzena, Tzena, Tzena or Runnin' Wild, finally plunges into the doleful depths of Love for Sale...
...hard-shoe goes on right handsomely with the help of a new partner who can fill the shoes-and the nylons-of the best of Astaire's former dancing partners. Cyd Charisse is a sinuously lovely sprout who has elegantly survived the trampling of regiments of chorus boys in a half-dozen movie ballets. Now, with Astaire at the hip, she finally has a full-fledged dancing-and-speaking part, not that she has to speak to get the audience's attention...