Word: singed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rehearsal, she puzzled Guest Conductor Fritz Reiner with her embellishments in the spiritual she was going to sing; she could not mark the places in the score for him so he could be sure to keep the NBC Symphony in step: "I'm sorry, I just have to do it as the spirit moves me." In the broadcast last week, the spirit was moving little Soprano Maynor-but with a faultless taste and timing that kept Conductor Reiner and her listeners moving right with...
...called her "a native Flagstad," Norfolk-born Dorothy Maynor has gone a long way. She has sung with most of the great U.S. orchestras, crisscrossed the U.S. and South America with concert tours. However, like her famed contralto counterpart, Marian Anderson, she has not yet been invited to sing at the Metropolitan Opera...
...Hollywood Tin Pan Alleyite whose specialty is producing catchy, shortlived jingles about leaky faucets (Bloop, Bleep) and slow boats to China. But Baby was not even written for public consumption. Loesser ran it off five years ago as a comedy number for himself and his wife, Lynn, to sing at parties. It was surefire when his songstress wife, with appropriate handwringing, began singing "I really can't stay . . . I've got to go 'way," and Loesser answered pleadingly, "But Baby, it's cold outside!" After that the pace picks up, with her reasons for saying "goodnight...
...towards his new room mate at first, but as the story progresses, he becomes more and more attached to her; the movie's neatest trick is conveying with subtlety Jones' growing affection for his ill-gotten ward. The first night that Shorts stays with Jones, she asks him to sing her a Lullaby. Jones complies, singing the tune of "Rock-s-bye Baby" with a set of hilarious lyrics from the daily race sheet; this is probably the funniest sequence in the movie...
...mail was pouring in, and the bobby-sox clubs ("The Girls Who Give In When Billy Gives Out") were forming. Two months ago, Billy got the nod from the high lamasery of all crooners, Broadway's huge Paramount Theater, a place sing-sanctified by Sinatra's first big-time appearance there...