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...seen in Ken Burns' 19-hour documentary "Jazz," though he employed many jazz masters on his records and radio shows, and teamed with Louis Armstrong more often than any star except Bob Hope. Ask people over 40 to describe Crosby in a few words, and the words might be "crooner," "White Christmas," "toupee," "Bob Hope and the 'Road' movies" and perhaps, thanks to a rancorous autobiography by his son Gary, "child beater." Which is about as fair as remembering Eisenhower the golfer and forgetting Eisenhower the top general of World...
DIED. CHARLES TRENET, 87, French crooner considered a master of la chanson francaise; in Creteil, France. Beloved for his mischievous charm and paeans to everyday life, his most famous song, La Mer (popularized in the U.S. by Bobby Darin as Beyond the Sea), has been recorded nearly 4,000 times...
...Crosby hadn't been a kid when he first starred in movies (he was nearly 30 when "The Big Broadcast" came out) and as his career ripened he had to adjust. In "Here Come the Waves" he was still playing a crooner who makes the girls scream, but here he was impersonating not himself but the younger Sinatra, who had become the bobbysoxer's rage. By the 1950s Crosby was part of a parade of aging male stars (Bogart, Cooper, Gable) making love to actresses young enough to be their daughters. For Bing, art was mirroring life: He was costarring...
...sales charts. The thing about compiling an album comprised solely of chart-toppers is that it ignores perfectly good songs that missed the number one spot... for instance, "Penny Lane" may have been an American number one, but it was ignominiously beaten in Britain by, of all people, kitsch crooner Engelbert Humperdinck ("Release...
...GREENWOOD Paleo-G.O.P. lives! Philly is phanatic over '80s crooner's God Bless the U.S.A...