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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Julie Budd (nee Erdman), 16, is a Brooklyn-born toy Streisand, (5 ft. 2½ in.). She has yet to learn to read music and insists that she has never studied voice. Says Julie: "I just open my mouth and sing." Within the three years since she was discovered on an amateur night at a resort in the Catskills, she has appeared on most of the network variety shows, including Merve Griffin for the 34th time last week, and has played Caesars Palace in Vegas with Frank Sinatra. She has a big three-octave range and reaches high C with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Awake and Sing | 7/27/1970 | See Source »

Since 1944, when F.D.R. ran for a fourth term, Frank Sinatra has loyally come to the aid of his party. Among those his voice has coaxed funds for are Jack Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey, and in 1966, California Governor Pat Brown. Now, says Sinatra, he will sing for Republican Ronald Reagan, up for re-election next fall. Said the singer-actor with a straight face: "It is my duty as a citizen to put aside partisan considerations when I think the other party's candidate is clearly the outstanding candidate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 20, 1970 | 7/20/1970 | See Source »

...Come sing a song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Owed to Joy | 7/13/1970 | See Source »

...peace shall come, my brother, Sing, sing a song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Owed to Joy | 7/13/1970 | See Source »

Petit's extravaganza is a lush mixture of Now and Then. His dancers, tricked out in crushed-velvet pantsuits by Yves St. Laurent, open with the springy "L'Amour du Métier" (The Love of Show Business). As they sing, they flit in and out of a flashing construction of steel tubes designed by the Venezuelan painter Jesús Raphael Soto. Then the Tiller Girls, 16 bright British birds whose forebears were the original inspiration for the Radio City Rockettes, descend from the ceiling in sentinel boxes. Their number is followed by blonde-wigged nudes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Old-Fashioned Insouciance | 7/13/1970 | See Source »

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