Word: chorused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Separately, the two Glee Clubs were much better. The Smith chorus sang an expert performance of Monteverdi's Scherzi Musicale for three-voice chorus, two instruments and continue. The unusual stylistic combination of a trio sonata and a madrigal was handled by Monteverdi with great care, and the two pieces Smith sang were delightful...
Mack the Knife (Louis Armstrong combo; Columbia). An uptempo, updated version of Kurt Weill's wonderful old ragtime hit from The Threepenny Opera (1928). Satchmo plays a lilting chorus and growls some free variations on the fine Marc Blitzstein lyrics (1954). Then he hears a shouted "Take it, Satch," and the Armstrong trumpet takes it high...
Time (Rusty Draper; Mercury). A cheerful complaint indeed, considering the scope of the problem, sung over a chuckling, shuffle beat. Chorus: "Time, you're a villain,/Time you're a thief,/ Time you stole my youth from me/and now you bring me grief...
...Later she had some minor success in radio soap operas, e.g., Joyce Jordan, Girl Interne, and in nightclubs.. One night in 1943 Ensign Bill Woodward, just out of Harvard and just sworn in for wartime service with the Navy, spotted a girl wearing a cat costume in the chorus line at the Copacabana. It was Ann, and it was love. After a two-week engagement, they were married in Tacoma, Wash. Bill went to sea duty (later he was one of 272 survivors of 916 aboard the torpedoed carrier Liscome Bay), and Ann moved in with...
While doing chorus work and singing commercials in New York, Eddie married Helene Musil, a ballet dancer, and followed her to Paris. There she made a success while he spun in the same old luckless groove...