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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...
...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...
...lithely (her weight down to 96 Ibs.) to stage center, Judy opens with I Feel a Song Coming On. In the lower registers, at least, she still has the old belting power. "My, I'm a loud lady," she says, striking the well-known hands-on-hips pose. "No crooner, I." Next is Almost Like Being in Love. Then The Trolley Song, and by now the fans are clanging time with their feet. For Me and My Gal turns into a community sing. She wonders: "What should I do now?" Man in the mezzanine: "Just stand there." Judy...
Each month, somebody, somewhere, nearly bursts a blood vessel over the cheeky covers of newly prosperous Esquire. In June, the magazine's cover took off on Jacqueline Kennedy. In a doctored photograph, Esquire showed her sledding with Crooner Eddie Fisher, under the quote: "Anyone who is against me will look like a rat - unless I run off with Eddie Fisher." Last November, a ventriloquist's dummy made to look like Hubert Humphrey graced the visible part of a foldout cover. Said the dummy: "I have known for 16 years his courage, his wisdom, his tact, his persuasion...
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...