Word: sing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this oogledy-too is a deliberately foolish-looking band leader called Red Ingle (real name: Ernest Jansen). It all began, he says, when he and his band, the Natural Seven, were playing in a Los Angeles nightclub. One night his vocalist, Karen Tedder, complained that if she had to sing Eden Ahbez' Nature Boy once again, she would go mad. To prove her point, she went into a wacky burlesque of it. "Well," said Red, "sing it that way." She did; and every night the boys put in a few more burps and barks. When they decided to record...
...phone said it was a bit of an emergency. Could Mrs. Dorothy Dobson sing top D flat? "Just a minute," said Dorothy. She had just had a baby and felt a little out of practice. She went to her piano, tried the note, and then reported back: yes, she could sing top D flat...
From Milan, Madame Grandi assured her British public that she really could sing top D flat herself. "But sometimes," she confided, "I am under such emotion, that it is a help ... if someone can sing it for me." London music lovers did not much like this explanation. It soon developed that Madame Grandi had been under similar emotion at last year's Edinburgh Festival, and had used another ghost, standing in the wings, for the same three notes. How much of this kind of thing went on? Apparently Sir Thomas Beecham, who conducted the orchestra for the recording...
...Band, the block-long march line, wound from the Yard through the Houses and up to the Indoor Athletic Building to hear three speakers and sing the whole repertoire of football songs...
...would like Mr. Rose to show me one of his chorines who can sing a complete opera . . . and then eat a dinner that will keep her glamorous figure...