Word: sing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ANDY WILLIAMS SHOW (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Andy hosts a sing-along with Bing Crosby, Kate Smith, Tennessee Ernie Ford and the Young Americans...
...stories about LSD arrests. There are four of them and they flew in from the Virgin Islands last spring with two enormous hits and a totally original sound. You walk back stage at the Commonwealth Armory expecting to find a completely flipped-out bunch, four curiosities who happen to sing nice songs...
...Applicants, worried about tropical insects, are reassured that bugs and scorpions are no special problem. What Viet Nam has in abundance, says Nurse Dorothy De Looff, just back from two years in Saigon, is lizards. "But you don't have to worry about them," she tells applicants. "They sing, they eat the insects and they're very friendly. You'll miss them when you come home...
...contralto in opera is the unsung singer. Of the precious few roles available to the contralto, most are skimpy caricatures of degenerate kings-roles written in olden times for castrati-or "the other woman." "In opera," she says, "the high-frequency voice has it. A contralto has to sing the whole night before anyone is impressed." It is just as well. Forrester is 5 ft. 9 in. and weighs 180 Ibs.; there are not many male singers who could make a believable partner. If she thought about it, she says wistfully, she could "feel slighted...
Died. Helen Kane, 62, a saucy soubrette from The Bronx who could barely sing a note, but in the flapper-happy '20s turned a baby voice, puckered-up lips, a couple of songs (/ Wanna Be Loved by You, Button Up Your Overcoat) and one nonsense phrase ("boop-boop-a-doop") into a national craze; of cancer; in Queens...