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Word: duetting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Quick Trip | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: This Side of Happiness | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sing It to Me | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brew, Beauty, Bop Headline Freshman Smoker Program | 3/3/1950 | See Source »

...Bellini's I Puritani, a Milanese favorite, Manager Ghiringhelli brought back U.S. Tenor Eugene Conley, for whom I Puritani was revived last season. When another singer sang flat in the first act, the audience groaned. But by the time Tenor Conley topped off the difficult third-act duet with a ringing D-flat above high C, audience and critics alike got off their hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Shortage at La Scala | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

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