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Word: outswung (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1964-1964
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...Bach Outswung. The eight Swingle Singers, currently on their first tour of the U.S., are all classically trained musicians. All are French, except their leader, Ward Swingle, 37, who is a native of Mobile, Ala. A graduate of Cincinnati's College Conservatory of Music, Swingle went to Paris in 1951 on a Fulbright scholarship to study piano, and eventually settled there. To pick up pocket money, he sang the "do-wa" backgrounds for pop singers in various Paris recording studios. As an escape on weekends, he recruited the best singers from the studio vocal groups to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Choruses: Swing, Swung, Swingled | 11/6/1964 | See Source »

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