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After a year in the U.S. Army, including nine months of German occupation duty, Pfc. Vito Farinola, 24, better known in his civilian days as Crooner Vic Damone, was home again to tackle an assignment right down his alley. Following official orders, Vic dropped into a Manhattan recording studio, cut a platter called The Girls Are Marching, a rousing new number which the Defense Department hopes will help recruit 80,00 women...
Married. Johnnie Ray, 25, sobbing composer-crooner (The Little White Cloud that Cried); and Marilyn Morrison, 22, brunette daughter of a Hollywood nightclub owner; in Manhattan. Most of the wedding party shed a few tears, but the groom was all smiles until he broke down to sing a chorus of Cry for a teen-age delegate from a Brooklyn fan club...
These words of a song called Try, wildly sobbed, gulped, gurgled and wailed, last week were beginning to ooze out of radios and jukeboxes across the land at a depressing rate. In Los Angeles, one adolescent worshiper of Crooner Johnny Ray, the Mossadegh of music, hurried to a friend to confide: "The guy went clear out on this one-he sounds like he really broke up." Other devotees, sharp enough to sniff a burlesque on their idol, launched an avalanche of protests at hilarious disk jockeys and at Capitol Records...
Meet Danny Wilson (Universal-International) pictures the rise of a brash but likable young crooner to the special fame that only bobbysoxers can bestow. Apart from romantic and melodramatic trimmings that it borrows elsewhere, the story cribs so freely from the career and personality of Frank Sinatra that fans may expect Ava Gardner to pop up in the last reel. What sharpens the illusion is the playing of Crooner Danny Wilson by Crooner Sinatra himself...
...Weaver of Dreams (Nat "King" Cole; Capitol, 45 r.p.m.). Crooner Cole gives a better-than-average love song a bestseller sendoff...