Word: crooners
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...good mimic, she often wows French audiences with take-offs of people who heckle husband George. She has never been heckled herself. Fiorenza's chats in English run about five minutes, those in French or Italian seven to 15. She hugs a mike like a crooner, turns it over to George with, "Now you didn't come here to listen to me. I'm going to sit down and let the men do the work...
...hoped-for 150 stations buy his transcribed show). As a jockey, the Duke promised to be impressive: his jazz know-how gave his between-platter comments a fine mood indigo. One record, he decided, had a "pear ice cream" flavor; Songstress Sarah Vaughn was "serpentine and opalesque"; Crooner Vic Damone "caressed with satin and gave a back porch intimacy...
...that position by one of the girl attendants"), and comes down hard on today's substitutes. Writing of the early 20th Century movies, he observes that "the cinematograph was then in its infancy. It has stayed there ever since." He bitterly regrets the day "the male and female crooner, or moaner, began to trouble the night air. . . . 'Craziness' in entertainment . . . is still the general note today. Nothing must mean anything-a reflection, no doubt, of the general life of this age. Bat's wings, bat's eyes, and bat's brains...
Destiny's Boy. Squatly handsome Gordon McRae, 26, believes that his career as a crooner was predestined: "I'm a very religious guy, you know. I believe that everyone has his own niche. . . ." From Deerfield Academy, destiny took Gordon to NBC as a $16-a-week pageboy. But he did not get very far, so the story goes, until CBS Board Chairman William Paley heard him sing...
...make it my life's work to get on that stage." Within three months, Jack's life's work was completed, when he and two other high-school kids were signed to sing at the Grove. Twelve years later, Jack was still a promising young crooner. Last week his twitchy, bouncy tenor was being gargled for its third consecutive year on the air, with CBS's Jack Smith show (Mon.-Fri., 7:15 p.m.), and he was making a "nice four-figure thing." Says he, "I never expect to be a Sinatra. I just hope...