Word: quaveringly
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...hoopla, pennants and brass bands. The electronic eyes that scan the men in the TV studio are devoid both of prejudice and of any softening human kindness. For the candidates there is no place to hide, no way of ducking behind a "no comment" or a sonorous platitude. Every quaver of voice, every fleeting grimace, is subject to merciless scrutiny...
Greenfields (the Brothers Four; Columbia). "Where," say the brothers with a quaver, "are the greenfields that we used to roam?" The answer is they are right there in the jukeboxes, where they are providing the brothers with one of the most durable hits to come along in many a month. The sound on this teary disk suggests nothing so much as four spooks whispering in a sarcophagus...
...teen-age dance, and occasionally refreshing himself from one of the inspirational books he always carries with him, e.g., The Greatest Thing in the World (love, naturally). No rock 'n' roller, Lauren delivers his ballads in a nappy, relaxed voice with the meticulous articulation and slightly teary quaver that Johnny Mathis made popular. Not the greatest thing in the world, but not too bad for a 19-year-old who was almost called Ellie Oopman...
...Heart Sings, Polly Bergen (Columbia LP). Songstress Bergen's idea of emotion is a throaty quaver and a kind of asthmatic gasp. The effect is disconcertingly in evidence on the first side of the album, but side 2 makes up the balance with a finely swinging Lucky Day, a bubbly The Lady Is a Tramp...
...voice has a pump-organ quaver and a soft adolescent fuzz on it, the phrasing is smooth, and the sentiments belting from the jukeboxes hit the pop fans right where they love to live...