Word: crooner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Still, the fact that thousands of viewers also own high-powered stereo rig: suggests that they may well object to the feedback, spotty pickups or imbalances that occur when Carol Burnett drowns out Jack Jones in a duet, or the band on The Ed Sullivan Show blasts through a crooner's ballad. To compensate, about one-third of the singers on TV practice "lip sync"-mouthing the lyrics to a prerecorded sound track. But this leads to such unnatural sights as lips out of gear or Joey Heatherton dancing frantically and singing sweetly while her chest heaves like...
Born. To Eddie Fisher, 39, nightclub crooner, and Connie Stevens, 29, TV and movie actress: a daughter; in Burbank, Calif. They had not previously announced that they were married and, although Eddie now said they were, nobody could care less...
JOHN GARY: CARNEGIE HALL CONCERT (RCA Victor). John Gary is a nice crooner who nicely sings nice tunes like The Most Beautiful Girl in the World and I'm Sitting on Top of the World. But those fans who hoped to enjoy sweet singing (a commodity that Gary always supplies) should forget this irritating recording. The high-volume static of a noisy audience destroys whatever atmosphere Gary's voice might have created...
Married. Jill St. John, 27, perennial starlet (The Oscar); and Jack Jones, 29, television and nightclub crooner; she for the third time (her last: Woolworth Heir Lance Reventlow), he for the second; in Beverly Hills, Calif...
...band breaks into his theme song, Hawaiian Crooner Don Ho rides the spotlight in like a surfer on a 30-footer at Makaha. Except for a red lei ringing his powerful shoulders, he is either bare from the waist up or all in glistening white, from open velours shirt to tight jeans and stocking feet. In his left hand, he sometimes totes white ankle boots, in the right a snifter of Chivas Regal Scotch. With his tousled hair and sly brown eyes, he has the smirk of a beach bum who owns the passkey to every cabana on the island...