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...Jolson slam dunks kept Harvard down at 61-53, but Hooft suddenly came alive with 19 second-half tallies as the Crimson crept back to within two, 65-63. It was only the shade of Dartmouth, with two full-court Eli passes breaking the game open again, and the Crimson fell to 10-15, while Yale upped their Ivy slate to 3-10, and 8-15 overall...

Author: By Theodore S. Chandler, | Title: Upsets Rock Ivy League Hoop Scene | 3/4/1978 | See Source »

...effect was just what the Crosby sound needed. In earlier work he sang with much jazzier effects. An artist in search of a personal style, he listened hard to Al Jolson, Mildred Bailey and Louis Armstrong. Finally Bing developed that mellifluous tone, a mere phrase of which causes millions of Americans to imagine the gold of the day meeting the blue of the night. Here was the voice that has sold more records than any other on earth save that of Elvis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Sweet Singer For All Seasons | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

Conceived by white men in the mid-1800s, minstrel shows evolved a format as rigid as a TV sitcom: performers, usually white, put on blackface makeup and offered up cakewalks, "coon songs" and darky-dialect jokes. Blackface survived until Al Jolson's mammy routines in the early 1900s, as proof that nobody found them offensive -nobody except black entertainers whose talents were suffocated by parody and caricature. Minstrel Man (CBS, Wednesday, March 2, 9 p.m. E.S.T.) provides a rare view of minstrelsy through the eyes of those victims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Viewpoints: High-Stepping History | 3/7/1977 | See Source »

...Rolling Stone readers, is Peter Frampton, 26. No wonder. His latest album, Frampton Comes Alive!, has sold 10 million copies, and 2 million fans this year have seen and heard the gyrating rock singer in concert Frampton's modest explanation of his success: "I do what Jolson, Sinatra, Tony Bennett and the Beatles did-what all the greats do. I communicate." Frampton has signed to make a movie in which he will play a rock star who sings the Beatles' songs. The film's title: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 31, 1977 | 1/31/1977 | See Source »

...Esther (here surnamed Hoffman), an overnight rock sensation. This is a reckless casting choice. Streisand is a showboater, a sort of one-woman Hippodrome whose roots are in the brassiest tradition of the American musical theater. Hearing her light into a rock song is like listening to Al Jolson sing Leadbelly. In partial anticipation of this problem, Streisand, who gives herself a credit for "Musical Concepts," has laid on a score that is only supposed to give the impression of rock 'n' roll. Instead, it will probably put off her fans and cause undue mirth among audience members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Barbra, a One-Woman Hippodrome | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

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