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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...
...Beta Kappa key and an honorary doctorate of laws. He took lunch at the home of the university's tall, grey-haired President Frederick Middlebush. Afterward in the living room he got a new round of laughter and applause by playing the Jenny Lind Polka as a piano duet with his sister, birdlike, 60-year-old Mary Jane Truman, and by giving her a brotherly poke with his elbow for making a mistake in her chording...
...rare blend of singing and acting talent that makes lyrics carry emotion as well as melody. And, toward the end, when she bounces back into animal spirits to join Keel in Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better, her strident comic style and Berlin's flamboyant duet seem to have been made for each other...
...Well Be Spring, A Tree in the Meadow, Faraway Places) on to the hit parade. She has helped bring back the vogue for tandem singing by doubling with Wakely, Jack Smith, Bob Hope and Bandleader Frank DeVol. Says Los Angeles Disc Jockey Gene Norman: "Margaret could sing a duet with a talking horse and make him sound good...
Comedy dancer Marie Tiffany, who has recently worked on the stages of Radio City Music Hall and the Paramount Theatre, will perform along with Chick Carmen, who is appearing at the French Village. A duet of Alice O'Leary and Guy Guarine, both currently at the Darbury Room, will also entertain...