Word: crooner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When Crooner Andy Williams canceled an engagement in Las Vegas last summer to play the state-fair circuit, the supposition was that he had just won an uncontested divorce from his senses, or that he ought to start proceedings against his agent. After all, Vegas, that bonanza city of the show world, would have paid him $50,000 a week. And what could he make from the likes of the Corn Palace Fair in Mitchell, S.D.? As it turned out: $70,500 in six days...
Born. To Vic Damone, 37, nightclub crooner, and Judy Rawlins, 29, sometime actress: their first child, a daughter (he has a son by First Wife Pier An-geli); in Los Angeles...
Compared with the heigh-ho, collegiate approach of Vallee, today's crooner is a suave, smoky-eyed predator. His natural habitat is the supper club, his prey the middle-aged female. Cologned, imperially trim, hair sculptured and pomaded, he moves in the spotlight's golden glow like a young god, a smiling vision in pancake makeup, velvet-trimmed dinner jacket, and patent-leather shoes...
...routine scarcely varies from crooner to crooner. After the bouncy, wake-up opening number and the tender love ballad, he takes his portable microphone on a teaser tour of the stageside tables, establishing the all-important "eye contact" with the ladies. Highlight of the mingle-with-the-matrons sequence is when he takes the hand of a giggling patron, drops to one knee and breathes Come to Me, Bend to Me, always climaxed by a buss on the cheek. This gives way to cozy time, in which the crooner mounts a stool to sing a round of songs categorized either...
Though the intent is to convey an air of casual spontaneity, a crooner's performance is as painstakingly choreographed, mood-lighted and rehearsed as a full-length production of Swan Lake. Crooners pay up to $10,000 to have an "act" written and directed for them, spend months perfecting their arrangements and delivery. Most conspicuous of the new crop...