Word: singer
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...between two men -- Bob Gaudio and Frankie Valli -- that is highly unusual, if not unique, in the world of business. Gaudio, 46, is a composer, pianist, arranger and producer who has worked on records with Sinatra, Ross, Diamond, Michael Jackson and Barry Manilow. Valli, 53, is the veteran pop singer whose high-pitched voice (a critic once likened it to an air-raid siren) still packs in audiences at basketball arenas, concert halls, nightclubs and casinos. Both men were original members of the Four Seasons, the famed rock group that next month will launch its 25th anniversary concert tour...
...weekend will be dedicated to Lord Harlech, an early supporter of the IOP and a former friend of President John F. Kennedy '40, K-School spokesman Steven Singer said...
...purpose of the IOP is to teach people about politics and particularly about electoral politics," said Singer, noting that two former Institute fellows--Sen. Paul Simon (D-III.) and Sen. Albert Gore Jr. '69 (D-Tenn.)--are now presidential candidates...
...fact, there is no other singer quite like Feinstein. Bobby Short is better singing Cole Porter -- Feinstein feels a bit uncomfortable with Porter's witty and often cynical lyrics -- and Steve Ross has a wider repertoire. But no one better understands the romantic moods of Irving Berlin and the Brothers Gershwin. Most singers today would not even bother with Berlin's ancient Alexander's Ragtime Band, for instance; or if they did, it would most likely sound like a Sousa march. Caressing it seductively, Feinstein, occasionally improvising as he sings, transforms it into a love song...
...beautiful voice," he says of Ella, "but I never got a sense she connected with the lyrics. She never churned my kishkes -- that's Yiddish for intestines." His list of favorites is just as idiosyncratic. It includes Minnelli, of course, but also Rosemary Clooney ("she does everything a singer should do"), Gogi Grant ("she has an emotional intensity and is much underrated") and Martha Raye ("her voice was like a flute"). Gogi Grant? Martha Raye? Clearly, we have here someone with strong minority opinions...