Word: singed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TONY'S GREAT HITS, VOLUME III (Columbia). Tony Bennett seems to sing nothing but hits: In San Francisco, I Wanna Be Around, Who Can I Turn To, This Is All I Ask. The ingredients of his success: a voice that makes a virtue out of sounding like incipient laryngitis, a delivery distinguished for being relaxed even in a field of relaxed singers, and top arrangements...
SCHOENBERG: GURRELIEDER (2 LPs; Deutsche Grammophon). Gurre is a castle where the maiden Tove and the Danish King Waldemar sing of love and death...
...greying Vandyke beard strode on stage at Manhattan's Town Hall last week. An imposing figure in white tie and tails, he waited as the 27-piece Esterhazy Orchestra played the first lilting strains of Bach's Christmas Oratorio. Then, clasping his hands, Alfred Deller began to sing. The contrast was startling: out of this burly frame poured the extraordinarily high, bell-clear voice of that rarest of all male singers, the countertenor...
...Oozy Wash. At 28, against almost everyone's advice, Deller gave up his promising career in the furniture business to sing with the Canterbury Cathedral choir. His salary as a choir singer was only $600 a year, and he supplemented his income by working as a farm hand for 90 an hour, pedaling his bicycle twelve miles a day to and from work. Then in 1943, Composer Michael Tippett, in search of a lead voice for a series of Purcell concerts, auditioned Deller. "In that one moment," recalls Tippett, "the centuries rolled back. Deller's voice is like...
...Grange was a 165-lb. scatback, who never ran over anybody at all. Like Brown, he was accused of being a shirker at blocking: "All Grange can do is run," was the classic comment-to which Bob Zuppke, his coach at Illinois, retorted: "All Galli-Curci can do is sing." Van Buren, "the Flying Dutchman," of Coach Greasy Neale's 1948-49 world championship Philadelphia Eagles, was the first great modern pro running back; a bruising 200-pounder, he could run the 100-yd. dash in 9.8 sec.-and set a career ground-gaining record (5,860 yds.) that...