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...hard to see why Mommy and Daddy would buy this ditty for any child, but rival record companies-King, Capitol and Dot-rushed their own versions on the market. Victor has brought out two novelty versions of the tune; Eartha Kitt sings it sexy ("I'm gettin' nothin' for Christmas 'cause I didn't want to be bad"), and Country Clowns Homer and Jethro take the part of the child's hardened parents ("Nuttin's too good fer our Johnny, and that's what he's gonna...
Wide, Wide World (Sun. 4 p.m., NBC). "Preparations for Christmas." Omnibus (Sun. 5 p.m., CBS). Eartha Kitt in Salome...
Show Biz (Sun. 7:30 p.m., NBC). Salute to 53 years of theater, with Groucho Marx, Rosemary Clooney, Buster Keaton, Eartha Kitt, Bert Lahr...
...lacerated joys and sunny sorrows of Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith and Chippie Hill survive only in the grooves of phono graph records, but their way with a song has been a lesson to every singer right down to Rosemary Clooney and Eartha Kitt. Lizzie is surviving handsomely, in person. Her voice has a brazen ring and a driving spirit; if she sings a bit flat here and there, she is always steady on the beat. Above all, she brings an au hentic echo of a past jazz age that the youngsters in her audience never knew and the oldtimers tearfully...
Songstress Wright had done some singing in her high-school choir, but nothing like this. She threw herself into Raincoat like a pro, clipped out one or two phrases with the sting of an Eartha Kitt, brooded most of the time in very womanly tones indeed. The song caught on quickly in Canada and crossed the border (on the Unique label). Last week it was making news as a potential bestseller...