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...their reputation. But it was Cole's singing that made them a stellar attraction. "The vocals," Cole said simply, "caught on." There were several shifts in trio personnel over the years (Irving Ashby, for example, took over the guitar when Moore departed in 1947), and the group became a quartet in 1949 with the addition of drummer Joe Costanzo. But through it all, Cole was the guiding spirit and main draw...
...breath during Friendly Neighbor and two huge flies dove into his throat and almost choked him . . . Reed Seymour once got the hiccups in there so bad his partial plate came off and he had to gum the news. And a week later, three of the Shepherd Boys, a gospel quartet, < slipped in and quietly de-pantsed him during a long account of a tragic house fire leaving 6 Persons Dead in St. Paul. He kept talking but he yipped twice when they pulled off his shorts...
Their names are Smudge, Sparky, Frankie and Jinx. That should give the viewer a fair indication of the kind of musical presented here. The very first song, "Three Coins in a Fountain," confirms one's every suspicion. All around, eyes glaze with nostalgia as, almost without pause, the quartet swings into "Gotta be This or That...
...quartet's acting has the rather juvenile exuberance of slapstick comedy. First, there's Frnakie (Dale Sandish). Unrivalled for the glossiness of his hair and the smoothness of his chin, he exclaims "Holy canolli!" in times of stress. As Smudge, a bathroom fixtures salesman by day and a bespectacled baritone by night, Jeff Bannon has so few facial expressions that he might as well have been stuffed. As Sparky, a stocky fellow who exudes good-guy looks, David Benoit is too jolly to be real. And Leo Daignault, playing Jinx, has the peculiar elfin charm of Andy Hardy...
Boston University Symphony Orchestra--with conducter David Hoose performs Mozart's Davidde Penitente, KV 469 and Brahms" Piano Quartet in G-Minor. At the Tsai Performance Center at 685 Commonwealth Ave. in Boston. Call 353-3345. Saturday...