Word: oo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...audience "orchestrate" with him-buzz to simulate loud strings, sing "tick, tick, tick" for a woodwind sound and "takata" for the brasses. "Oo," he commented, "seemed to me sort of bluish. When we sang 'takata' it seemed like a fiery orange." With a flick of the wrist in midsentence, he would bring in the 107-man New York Philharmonic to illustrate his points, rapidly skipping from Mozart to Stravinsky to Hindemith. The finale: a rousing performance of Ravel's Bolero, part of which he compared to "very high class hootchy-kootchy music...
...STEVENS is a deep-purple (D below middle C) jazz singer who wears wicked black sheaths and Vampira makeup, and is visually and musically the most striking of the new girl singers. Her audiovisual analogue would be a bass sax wrapped in a lace nightie. Using a vocabulary of oo's, ee's and ah's, she sings one entire side of her first LP (That Satin Doll; Atlantic) almost completely without words. This could sound like a cat trapped in a rain barrel, but somehow manages not to. In the best of her all-but-wordless...
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...creator of such pop tunes as Tea for Two and Is It True What They Say About Dixie? Composer Caesar is no stranger to tax songs. In 1946 he turned out a children's tune called Tommy Tax ("Who pays our smiling Postman/ For toting heavy sacks? Who-oo You-oo/ And little Tommy Tax"), and was eager to write another. In a flash Tunesmith Caesar shipped off to IRS a high-stepping, bugley march called The Red White and Blue Can't Live on Your I.O.U.: "When you pay your taxes, pay enough/ Uncle Sam is getting...
...some reasonably lively dancing and some agreeable sentimental tunes. But it lacks production excitement: Hollywood's Gloria DeHaven and Ricardo Montalban make love seem pleasantly unmemorable, and no one makes sin very thrilling. Sin, in fact, is a good deal more lavendered than scarlet -the hotcha is mostly oo-la-la, the Paris mostly an old-fashioned Gay Paree. The last show of the season, Seventh Heaven might have wound up any season for the past 20 years...