Word: singe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sammy and his party of 16 arrived the day after he was expected. No sooner in Monaco than he was miffed again. The Rainiers were entertaining the players in a pro celebrity tennis tournament and had failed to include him. Next day, several hours before he was due to sing, Sammy boarded the Silver Gate and sailed away. Comic Bill Cosby retrieved the evening with the help of Burt Bacharach, Desi Arnaz Jr. and Josephine Baker. Grace remained serene. "When people get that pampered," she sighed, "there's not much...
David O'Docherty, an obscure pipes-and-flute man, will sing traditional Irish and English songs and ballads at Passim's, the last surviving folk coffee house in the Square. It sounds offbeat; Passim's usually has more conventional guitarfolk music. July...
...Phillips, 37, his first wife, Michelle Phillips, 29, and his second missus, South African Actress Genevieve Waite, 26, all making music for their "family label," Paramour Records. No hanky-panky about it either. Although Phillips, who with Michelle, Cass Elliot, and Denny Doherty founded the Mamas and the Papas singing group in 1965, likes to call his life-style with a giggle "a ménage à trois," the relationship seems to be purely commercial. Michelle and Genevieve are capital investments. "There's something about me that makes women sing," he declared from his Manhattan town house. Said Michelle...
...handle the language and the attitude. We had to sustain the dignity of the man." He and his brother Robert proceeded to elevate the slave's image by altering his name (he is Nigger Jim no longer, just plain Jim) and giving him a couple of songs to sing. "Gotta get away to Cairo/Ai-ro/Illinois!" he croons brightly with Huck as they pole their way upstream toward freedom and a soundtrack record album...
...Sarah Caldwell doing with a war horse like that, when she could be scoring musicological points by dredging up, say, Cornelius' The Barber of Baghdad! She is doing what any savvy impresario would do-playing to her strength. When a loyal Caldwellite like Beverly Sills is willing to sing her first Rosina, and that master of operatic disguise Donald Gramm is equally eager to sing Bartolo, the savvy thing to do is put on The Barber of Seville...