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...dance arrangements of familiar arias from Italian operas. So far he has turned bits from The Barber of Seville, Rigoletto and Trovatore into sambas; one of his biggest hits is a dance number derived from Carmen in which he sings a jumble of meaningless words in a high falsetto while the rest of the band chimes in with a robust Toreador chorus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Groaning Gondolier | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

...Ties & Syncopation. At last week's convention Stamps-Baxter was much in evidence. One of its quartets, in blue suits and red ties, brought down the house with four new Stamps-Baxter songs: I'm Having a Good Time Here, Dreaming, with a falsetto blues-style solo, Swing Low Sweet Chariot, with new words and music,* and Far Above the Starry Sky. Delegates cheered the quartet's close harmony and syncopation, bought 500 copies of their songbooks and records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Gospel Harmony | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Supremely confident ("I think I will bust TV wide open"), Wynn was onstage all but five minutes of the half-hour show, grimacing in a succession of funny hats, outlandish garments and size 13 shoes. The fluttery mannerisms, Rube Goldberg inventions and falsetto giggles were the Wynn trademarks made popular by a long succession of musical comedies (Ziegfeld Follies of 1914 and 1915, The Perfect Fool, Hooray for What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Something Old, Something New | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

Along with Silent Night, Holy Night and 0 Little Town of Bethlehem, the U.S. last week was hearing a new kind of Christmas carol-the daffy, bell-ringing, horn-honking, falsetto-voiced Spike Jones kind. Out only six weeks, a new record by Spike Jones & his City Slickers (recorded in 1947, before the Petrillo ban) was already sixth on the hit parade. Its title: All I Want for Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Christmas with Spikes On | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

...mong ec oil vifty rench," said Sedgwick in a crisp falsetto...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tracy's Protegee Mmbls to Sdgwck On Holiday Issue | 12/12/1947 | See Source »

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