Word: como
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Philip Hoff, though he concludes that "most TV is simply trash, and I don't have the time." Washington's Governor Daniel Evans prefers the Bell Telephone Hour, I Spy and the public affairs programs. Tennessee's Governor Buford Ellington goes for pro football, Perry Como and Lawrence Welk...
...Perry Como, What Did Delaware...
After his epic bust-up with Jerry Lewis in 1956, Crooner Dean Martin seemed to have little more to offer than any boozily pattering straight man with a boyish twinkle and a set of imitation Crosby-Como tonsils. Indeed, a lot of his enemies and some of his friends thought that Dino would likely end his career croaking in cocktail lounges from Far Rockaway to Skokie. But there seems to be quite a market for patter and twinkle these days. Variety reported last week that Martin, 49, from his TV variety series, record royalties, club dates and movie lucre, earns...
...PERRY COMO'S KRAFT MUSIC HALL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Angela ("Mame") Lansbury, Bob Newhart and the Young Americans cozy up with Perry in his first musical-variety special of the season...
...hayseed either. Arnold has never gone in for the spangled Western getups, nasal mewings and twangy guitars that have made country music so tiresome. He is more the Country Como, a slightly citified slicker in sports shirt and slacks, singing to arrangements laced with violins and a gently humming chorus. As such, he has attracted a broader popular following than any other singer in the old Nashville clan. Says he: "Once we cut out all the by-cracky nonsense and give respect to our music, then people will respect...