Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Still Free and Well Worth It, to be aired on NBC later this month. Though the three woeful crooners belted out the number in a style that will surely have audiences panting for less, Hope was quite taken with Olsen's falsetto solo. "I was afraid to sing so high," says the comedian. "But he's big enough to get away with...
...first bitten, that was it," says Meryl. "The whole audience stood up when I came out. Mind you, I've never had that experience since. It must be like what Lady Diana felt on the balcony." English Teacher Jean Galbraith recalls dropping in on a rehearsal and hearing her sing Till There Was You. "I thought, that can't be the kid in the first row who sits next to the windows? I mean that's professional, that's fantastic." Brother Third, who played Winthrop, Marian's little brother, says that there was some jealousy when she went...
...flaps open and the light of campfires flickering beneath the towering dark trees, a harmonica plays a mournful country-and-western air and young voices hum along. Guitars and a drum join in, changing the melody. "The corn is as high as an elephant's eye," the Scouts sing, none louder than a large contingent from Oklahoma. Their voices seem to reach the tops of the trees. If there are doubts about the move away from city Scouting, they pass into the night. "Sure, kids today are different," says Scoutmaster Arthur Ferraro, 64, of Westerly...
...composers agree, should catch the ear the first time it is heard, yet sound as if it has been around forever. The tunes sometimes become so popular that they are sold as records. The public bought a million copies of I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing in 1971, while a slightly different version-Coca Cola's I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke-was saturating the air waves free. Some tunes are adapted from classics. Some, like Steve Karmen's I Love New York, are endlessly repeatable four-note phrases. Last...
...opera about Gandhi, Philip Glass makes Sanskrit sing...