Word: singerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contest of the week, however, was the Adams-Lowell thriller on Wednesday, which Adams won, 22 to 21, gaining revenge for a previous debacle. As the final horn was sounded, Lowell held a 20 to 19 advantage, but Baskell and Donahoe committed a multiple foul on high-scorer Monty Singer of the Gold Coasters. The unique affair ended as Singer colly sank two fouls...
...plot is complex at first glance; but it really doesn't amount to much. Betty Hutton starts out as twin sisters; one who is an ardent Bing Crosby fan, and the other who thinks him an annoying crooner. Bing, as a sobbing singer--genus Sinatraensis--falls for the twin who will have none of him. In the course of action the Waves get both Betty Huttons, Bing gets the sensible sister, and the bobby-sock twin gets left with Sonny Tufts, who doesn't seem to care...
...general lustiness of the lyrics might corrupt the youth of the land. As sung in Trinidad, in its native state, the song might have been censored with more cause. Rum & Coca-Cola burgeoned on the Port-of-Spain waterfront in 1943. Its composer was a stocky Negro calypso singer named Rupert Grant, known for professional purposes as "Lord Invader." For Rum & Coca-Cola he took a tune, with alterations, from a popular Trinidad paseo (two step), and dogged out some doggerel...
...watered-down, scrubbed-up version, tailored to Tin Pan Alley standards, Rum & Coca-Cola was plugged at Manhattan's Paramount Theater by a blond singer named Jeri Sullavan. It quickly became the biggest selling calypso song in history. Last week the Pepsi-Cola Co. was reportedly urging Rum & Coca-Cola's Manhattan publishers and Decca's Jack Kapp to make recordings with "coca" changed to "pepsi...
...most affecting of anti-Fascist screen melodramas. Stage Veteran Felix Aylmer turns in such a mellow performance as the fragile, intrepid old man that it is easy to forgive him for visibly licking his chops over the role. Norway-born Greta Gynt, as the cabaret singer, is so crashingly carnal in her first U.S. appearance that Hollywood seems, for her, an inevitable...