Word: ducktail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rising. The song is from Baker Street, which has yet to reach Broadway. But the recording is already so popular with disk jockeys that every time a transistor is flipped on, or so it seems, out comes Married Man. This, without doubt, is because the recording artist, the nouveau ducktail of this display of flaming treacle, is none other than Richard Burton, who has no connection with Baker Street. He merely recorded the song to exploit his peerage in the aristocracy of love...
...main, the ducktail warblers of popular singing-the Fabians, the Bobby Darins, the Frankie Avalons-are as interchangeable as bottle caps. Like the others, Paul Anka was a veteran performer before he was 20. His hair is a studied sculpture in coal tar and astrakhan. His voice sounds as if his shirt collar is too tight. But Anka is also a songwriter and the tunes that have made...
...millionaire, now leaves the day-by-day management of the Steel Pier to his smoothly agreeable, Princeton-educated son, George Jr., 42, and some entertainers are probably thankful that he does. The Old Tumbler has no admiration for the easy somersaults of the Frankie Avalons, the Fabians, the ducktail warblers. "It used to take some body like Sophie Tucker ten years to get her name in lights," he remembers. "Now you're on the marquee if you cut a single record. I just can't take paying these brats $10,000. Goddamit, I used to throw them...
...just enough vodka and cranberry juice to get up and pulsate with song. But the office is really Manhattan's subterranean Copacabana, one of the best-known bomb shelters in the world, and the mail clerk is little Bobby Darin, a $350,000-a-year corporation with ducktail by Lilly Dach...
...project, each making a small but vital part, each kept in ignorance of the nature of the ultimate weapon. Then last week, with all sections assembled, Chancellor Records of Philadelphia detonated its bomb. American youth can now buy long-playing albums containing the sculptured heads of the Great Ducktail Warblers, Fabian and Frankie Avalon...