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...helped Louis, he could be said to have given artistic birth to a generation of singing stars; baritones were the almost exclusive rage for the next two decades. Specifically, his example taught Sinatra that the pulp poetry in a good lyric could be enriched by honoring it, and showed Presley how the low range for his ballads could be as sexy as the squalling tenor of his rockabilly...
...Presley era and beyond, stars made an impact by going too far, by affronting community propriety (when the community still had propriety), by translating the lewd and the crude into popular art. Bing was just the reverse. He didn't outrage or astonish; he reassured. He was not on the edge; he created a new middle, which always should have existed but didn't until he eased into it. Imagine that, far into the history of food - say, around 1930 - someone had come up with the potato. That was the eureka element to Crosby's relaxed style. He was Everyman...
...were trying to get to any of those places, you wouldn't start here. Tupelo is isolated in the hilly, northeastern corner of the poorest and least educated state in the union. If you've ever heard of Tupelo, it's probably as the birthplace of Elvis Presley. It seems an unlikely magnet for foreign investment and export employment. But that's exactly what it has become...
...Among the older competitors I encountered 70-something white-haired Jeanne Carmen, a former movie starlet. I wouldn't have called her that myself, but she proudly showed me the latest issue of Mojo magazine with a photo of her younger self with a very early-period Elvis Presley, and that's exactly how she was captioned. Being on "Survivor" would be a career-topper for her, as well as a crack at that cool million. She took me through some of her life from the cotton fields of Alabama to her first chorus role on Broadway - age 17 - alongside...
...million Elvis Presley's earnings last year, topping Forbes' list of the highest-paid deceased celebrities; $15 million came from admissions revenue at Graceland...