Word: dots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That cat over there in the polka dot vest. But just between you and me, I think he's a little square; he's not with It. Let's get the party rolling...
...East Coast (The Den in Manhattan), she stood on the brink of the big time, one of the few white blues singers who ever belonged there. Ahead of her were further club dates in Chicago, San Francisco and a return to New York, as well as an LP for Dot. Said Record Executive Al Levitt, in what is only a slight exaggeration: "A voice like this hasn't been recorded in 30 years...
Sweet Sue Evans (Dot LP). Songstress Evans, a onetime philosophy student, runs through a collection of pretty numbers in a pale but pretty voice, occasionally accompanying herself on a lightly swinging harp. Sample saw from her pseudo-philosophical kit: "Nothing is forever, always is a lie/ I can only love...
Fourth in the hula race was Dot Records, which recorded a number called Hula Hoop with Steve Allen, one of TV's intellectuals, as the featured singer. Its lyrics made the previous songs sound cerebral by comparison...
...Although Dot's song trailed the field by about five days, the company is counting heavily on Entertainer Allen to give it the TV boost it needs. A production push of the kind the hula hoopsters have been engaged in can send costs soaring to five times what they usually are. To absorb that kind of expense requires a major hit (like Purple People Eater), and none of the hula songs yet recorded seem likely to go that far. "It's beginning to look," said one weary A. & R. man last week, "like everybody got carried away with...