Word: crooners
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...opening night, a crush of bobby-soxers whisked the bow-tie off 42-year-old "Cavalier of Song" Donald Peers before he could get in the stage door. Inside, the hullaballoo swelled to Sinatran size, even though, noted one London reviewer, stocky, ruddy-faced Crooner Peers "makes no undernourished appeal to the maternal instinct." From the minute he first let them have it-In a Shady Nook, It's a Hap-Hap-Happy Day-in a jolly and effervescent baritone, "like an uncle at a children's party," the fans couldn't get enough of Britain...
...fans in a frenzy. It was an ex-painter's laborer from South Wales." Last week, after ten straight months of raising the roof over the U.S.'s Tony Martin, Frank Sinatra, et al., London's fickle fans were going wild over a crooner of their...
There was a time when Bing Crosby used to explode, "My son Gary a crooner? Never!" Last week Der Bingle's explosion was muffled down to a tongue-in-cheek...
...swank Kensington garden party, Frankie Sinatra met Princess Margaret, sang a bang-up rendition of If I Loved You, at her request. During their 15-minute chat that followed, the Princess told the crooner not to work too hard. Said The Voice: "She floored me by knowing so much about music...
...birdies and a par on the first three holes are enough to turn any golfer's head. When that happened to Crooner Bing Crosby in the British Amateur Golf Tournament last week, he addlepatedly played toward the nearby 14th instead of the fourth green. Thereafter Bing gathered a flock of sixes and lost his first-round match.-By week's end he was joined on the sidelines by more distinguished golfing company, including Defending Champion Sam McCready of Ireland and the 1947 winner, Willie Turnesa of New York. As usual, the Royal and Ancient "Old Course...