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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This One Is the Toni (Toni Carroll; M-G-M LP). Songstress Carroll, billed as a onetime Miss Missouri, belongs to the whisper-from-the-navel school. Her incendiary reading of such ballads as I'm in the Mood for Love and I Only Have Eyes for You will bump the pulse, the album guarantees, "of any red-blooded American man." Toni's signature song (Call Toni) sets the pitch: "I'm all yours and ready to do/ Anything you want me to/ Just dial TONI oh-five-six-eight-three...
Other Worlds Other Sounds (Esquivel and His Orchestra; RCA Victor LP; Stereo). Mexico's mood master transmutes a gaggle of standards-Begin the Beguine, Night and Day, It Had to Be You-into something new and cunningly deranged with the aid of bongos and a conga drum and a chili-flavored beguine tempo. Stunningly opulent sound...
Fancy Meeting You Here (Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney; RCA Victor LP; Stereo). An infectious musical dialogue between two of the sassiest fancy talkers in the business. C. & C. give slick and witty readings to a selection of retreads -On a Slow Boat to China, You Came a Long Way from St. Louis-and introduce a punchy, potential hit named Calcutta. One of the most intriguing vocal entertainments since Noel Coward had his famous chat with Mary Martin...
...accounted for the postwar popularity of the German art song. On his U.S. tours, he has held audiences rapt through the whole of Schubert's song cycle Die Winterreise and through the complete Schumann Dichterliebe. He has reached an even wider public through his 40-odd LP recordings, including Hugo Wolf's 16 Songs, Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice, Brahms's German Requiem, albums of Mahler songs...
...office and later agreed with the public that it was a "monotonous and cold'' work. Nevertheless, he returned to it after 25 years and extensively revised it. Not often performed, the revised Boccanegra is a fascinating melange of early Verdian flamboyance and late Verdian depth. In this LP version a superb cast kindles enough vocal splendors, especially in the ensemble passages, to suggest Boccanegra as a candidate for frequent restaging...