Word: sing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three weeks ago startled network officials heard frustrated Bill Goodwin sing out his sign-off ("This is CBS ... the Columbia . . . Broadcasting . . . System") in a rapidly rising whine that broke into a high, hysterical giggle. Fortnight ago he concluded it with a stricken "OUCH!" Last week, he added a single, unsavory "Ughh...
...tree in the living room back home. Some kid will make a joke and all the guys will laugh but it's not the kind of laugh they used to have when they were with their folks. And after chow they won't ask me to sing Jingle Bells or Ball Game. They'll ask for I'll Be Seeing You or Goodbye Sue. Most of the fellows won't even have the pleasure of eating with a girl from back home or hearing a song because they'll be lying up there smacking...
Beginning next week, on his old CBS spot (9-9:30 p.m. Wed.), Frankie will sing for Max Factor Cosmetics-on the not unlikely assumption that even if his voice didn't spell vitamins, it will probably send women straight out to the drugstore to buy lipsticks and pancake powder...
...used in connection with nine recordings of popular barbershop numbers. At first the record plays a selection emphasizing the lead, tenor and bass successively, to give the G.I. student the idea. Then it supplies the missing parts, so that the G.I. can learn in turn to sing lead, tenor and bass. By the time he is through the cycle, the G.I. has become an all-round barbershop expert, able to sound off, at the clearing of a throat, with any part of Old Man River or In the Evening by the Moonlight...
Christmas Hymns (victor Chorale, Robert Shaw conducting; Victor; 4 sides). Gifted Choral Conductor Shaw (TIME, Jan. 25, 1943) gives distinction as well as fervor to an anthology of oldtime choruses like Adeste Fideles and Hark! The Herald Angels Sing. Recording: good...