Word: pattering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some watchers, it is all business. They just give the facts, with no frills. Others develop a distinctive line of patter. They try to cheer up stalled motorists with a little humor. "There must be a lot of ladies out tonight," Warren Boggess of San Francisco's KSFO likes to say. "I see cars swerving in and out of traffic lanes." Reporting for New York's WCBS, Bob Richardson and Neal Busch call themselves "Orville" and "Wilbur," their helicopters "help-o-copters." Last month Los Angeles' KABC hired a pair of chatty girls, blonde Kelly Lange...
...DROP OF ANOTHER HAT is a chatter-and-patter revue by two stage personalities, Michael Flanders and Donald Swann, who might have come through the looking glass. They guide their devotees through a wonderland of whimsy, where, among other things, a nearsighted armadillo falls in love with a tank...
BYRDLAND (Columbia). As one of the first importers of bossa nova, Charlie Byrd still likes to toss off a samba or two on his amplified guitar, and he can pluck soul from folk-blues like Work Song, but mostly he keeps up a sophisticated patter with pop hits (Theme from "Mr. Lucky") and old ballads (I'll Be Around...
...DROP OF ANOTHER HAT is a chatter-and-patter revue by two stage personalities, Michael Flanders and Donald Swann, who might have come through the looking glass. They lead their devotees through a wonderland of whimsy, where, among other things, a nearsighted armadillo falls in love with a tank...
...does seem a shame that the boys will only be able to listen to her voice. Still, the radio patter of Starlet Chris Noel, 24, who cut a pretty picture with Elvis Presley in Girl Happy, ought to be quite an improvement over the nightly propaganda noise that U.S. troops in South Viet Nam have been getting from the girl deejay they call Hanoi Hannah, the North Vietnamese version of Axis Sally or Tokyo Rose. To compete with Hannah, the U.S. Armed Forces Radio is having Chris tape a series of hour-long music and sweet-talk shows to broadcast...