Word: singed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...youth? A. Work. Q. What do you do when you don't work? A. (Marlene smiled and stroked the head of her piano accompanist, Friedman Bachrach, 30, seated by her.) Q. So that's it? A. (Still smiling, she nodded.) Q. What else do you do besides sing and act? A. Counsel the lovelorn. Q. Why do you specialize so much in love? A. Because it is the only important thing. Q. Do you plan to write your memoirs? A. No, I am not an exhibitionist. Q. What do you fear most? A. Death...
...that of someone else: an oldtime Wagnerian "black bass," echoing with rare depth and timbre. Executive Oliver's voice is so unusual, in fact, that when Composer Igor Stravinsky first heard him, he added a specially low voice role to his last great work and asked Oliver to sing...
...first album, Sing Along with Mitch, was a rousing bestseller when it came out 15 months ago. The 28 choristers, picked from a local aviary of singing commercialists, managed to sound like so many lonesome Kiwanians mooning by the banks of the Budweiser. The words were easy to understand-for good measure, they were printed on the jacket-and the repertory never got far from the old millstream. By last week, Columbia and Conductor Miller had issued five more albums, and the sing-along series had sold an astounding 1,750,000 copies...
Whether anyone actually sings along with the sing-along albums probably does not bother bearded Idea Man Miller. It is a little difficult to picture the sentimental householder warming up his woofer, dusting off his diamond needle, and joining in for an evening of mooed music. More likely, the nation's mature citizens are merely striking back at rock 'n' roll, buying the sing-alongs because they like listening to simple, straight songs...
Nyack, N.Y., Tappan Zee Playhouse: Margaret Truman stars (but does not sing) in The Happy Time...