Word: crooner
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...sounds vacuous, like a half-hearted attempt to recall the quiet beauty of “I’ll Be Yr Bird” on 2005’s “Transistor Radio.” Another boisterous cover, this time of country crooner Jimmie Dale Gilmore’s “Headed for a Fall,” closes the album. While it’s fun to hear Ward belt it out with a host of guest musicians, again including Case, the song sounds just enough like the Traveling Wilburys covering a TV theme song...
...Drifters; but most of the other renditions are not so extreme. He does an excellent, committed "Silent Night," with careful intonations that his Tupelo elocution teacher would've been proud of (a soft hammering of those final t's). And "Here Comes Santa Claus" shows how much the crooner in Elvis owed to Crosby...
...will ever accuse Carrie Fisher of holding back. Throughout her 30-year career, Fisher - the daughter of 1950s sweetheart Debbie Reynolds and crooner Eddie Fisher - has used her Hollywood childhood, drug addiction, mental illness and romantic failures as fodder for screenplays (Postcards from the Edge) and books (Surrender the Pink) Now the actress, 50, is on stage each night performing in her first one-woman show, Wishful Drinking, at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. What does she talk about? Her life, of course! From her iconic role as Princess Leia (remember the "bagel braid" hairdo?) in Star Wars...
...Nashville crooner Sara Evans dropped out of Dancing with the Stars because...
...describe their music as a combination of “good old rock ‘n roll with ethnic music from their homeland.” The band, formed by two Russian refugees in 1995, derives its name from the duo’s love of the late crooner and their passion for the color red (how apropos...