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When it comes to music, U.S. college kids know what they like. In Billboard's ninth annual college poll, out last week, they still preferred sweet to swing, had the same favorite girl singers (Jo Stafford, Dinah Shore, Peggy Lee) and liked the same swing band (Stan Kenton's) as last year. Tommy Dorsey's sweet band was no longer tops (actually he had disbanded it. but it was voted second best anyway). The new favorite: Tex Beneke and the Glenn Miller Orchestra. Among male singers, Bing Crosby lost first place to Frank Sinatra for the first...
...Hope radio show, she had caught the easy-to-catch but hard-to-hold ear of burly Eli Oberstein, who bosses all popular records at RCA-Victor. Victor was badly in need of a girl singer to put up against such formidable competition as Columbia's Dinah Shore, Capitol's Jo Stafford, Peggy Lee and Margaret Whiting, and Decca's Evelyn Knight. Beryl has the kind of soft, low-pitched voice that climbs into a listener's lap. Oberstein, who had built up Dinah until she ran off to Columbia last year, signed Beryl, and agreed...
...build a show around a female singer, honey," says Georgia Gibbs. "Look at the way they axed Ginny and Dinah." But next week torchy Songstress Gibbs contradicts herself by stepping into a show, the first that has been tailored to her tiny (5 ft. 1 in.), alluringly tough measure. Georgia is the summer replacement for Eddie Cantor (NBC, Thurs. 10:30 p.m., E.D.T...
...Dinah Shore highlighted the 1940 affair with songs, while a poll of class members provided statistics for the "Ideal" girl to form a basis for choosing a queen of the weekend...
...contagious tunes, neck-deep in sumptuous production. Van Johnson does a highly self-appreciative song& -dance-looking, unfortunately, a little as if he should be carrying a roast apple in his mouth. Judy Garland is charming as the late Marilyn Miller and still more charming when she sings Who? Dinah Shore gives special warmth to They Didn't Believe Me and The Last Time I Saw Paris. Lena Home sings Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man and Why Was I Born? with as much careful intensity as if she were expounding existentialism. Frank Sinatra does...