Word: crooning
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...this week, God Bless America will be barred from the mikes of the networks, and swingsters will have to palpitate to something other than the St. Louis Blues. The sentimental will listen in vain for confections like The End of a Perfect Day, and Irish tenors will have to croon something besides Macushla and Mother Machree. For Protestants there will...
When he began to croon, Lewis Reid of the Morris agency asked Character Actor Irving Kaufman to assume the role. Plump, pink-faced, freckled, balding, Kaufman, who as a small boy once played a spurious Russian midget in vaudeville, has portrayed Lazy Dan for Old English Floor Wax, Happy Jim Parsons for Air Conditioning Training Corp., Johnny Prentiss for Gruen Watch Co. He boasts that he has made more phonograph records than any other singer, having worked for 22 companies under ten different names. On the radio he has played as many as twelve characters in one sketch. But until...
...called The World's Largest Make-Believe Ballroom. It was simply a daily program of phonograph records, but the announcer made a great pretense of having, say, Jan Garber playing on Stage One, Paul Whiteman waiting his turn on Stage Two, Rudy Vallee in the wings, ready to croon. The announcer carried on one-sided conversations with the great names on the record labels, took listeners in their imagination to a Make-Believe Ballroom, far from any two-by-four radio studio...
...while Britain's tunesmiths tightened up their tom-toms, Britain's soldiers bull-doggishly continued to croon such old sweet favorites as Roses of Picardy, Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag and There's A Long, Long Trail, dusted off such hardtack tidbits...
...Hollywood, Radioldster Lee De Forest, inventor 31 years ago of the audion radio tube which made long-range broadcasting possible, celebrated his 65th birthday by telling reporters how little he thinks of broadcasting, 1938 style: "I seldom tune in. . . . The programs, all swing and croon, are not only poor, but the interruptions for commercial announcements are maddening. . . . Isn't it sickening? It isn't at all as I imagined it would...