Word: dads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forgotten his working-class origins. Londoners like best his stock characters, such as cockneys, hard-boiled moppets (one proudly reported that he had not only spotted spring's first cuckoo, but shot it with his air rifle) and the Giles "family." This includes beefy, solid Dad and Mum, a scrawny pig-tailed schoolgirl, two older homely sisters, a horrid, runty little boy and stumpy, grumpy Grandma who smells of camphorated oil and dotes on "bulls' eyes" (a peppermint candy...
...even a crust brad we Got in our houses- If you dun't come across we all are dad docks...
...world lasts long enough for me to have a son who, during a future war, says, "Dad, I'm going to enlist; my country needs me," I'll tell him: "Don't be a jerk, son; patriotism is for fools. Wait for the draft...
...Wanderin', There's No Tomorrow, stopped the show. His warm, strong baritone, faintly reminiscent of Tony Martin's, still had the natural flow and phrasing which he had developed by singing in a Philadelphia synagogue, and the unsophisticated delivery which "I got," he says, "from helping dad hawk fruits and vegetables from a truck when I was a kid." When the reviews appeared next morning, Fisher was described as "merely wonderful," "a sensational singing voice and style," "terrific...
Hulking alongside his dad at the microphone, Gary chimed in on a ragtime duet called Play a Simple Melody, written by Irving Berlin back in 1914. He had some of the old man's verve, if not much of the voice. Decca Records' Dave Kapp heard it, last month got the Crosbys, father & son, to do a repeat in front of a recording mike. By last week, Play a Simple Melody -with its companion piece, Sam's Song-was a runaway bestseller: more than 300,000 records had been sold in less than three weeks...