Word: singerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Within a few months record buyers were clamoring for Decca's later Bing Crosby version. Shrewd David Kapp barged wholesale into the hillbilly field, boomed local hits into national smashes by giving them successive recordings by bigger & bigger names. Thus, Crosby became the most popular singer of hillbilly as well as other popular music...
...humanity," for a record-breaking 562 benefits in two years. Probably the first entertainer to work with the armed forces, Hope has also been the most frequent. Using trains, cars, trucks, tanks, jeeps, Hope has played in virtually every U.S. camp, last fall hopped off with his USO team (Singer Frances Langford, Guitarist Tony Romano, Comic Jerry Colonna) to tour Alaska. When, at the last moment, it looked as if the tour would fall through, Hope wired Lieut. General Simon B. Buckner: WE SING, DANCE, TELL STORIES; HAVE TUXEDOS; WILL TRAVEL; CAN WE PLAY YOUR CIRCUIT? They played it straight...
With his attractive wife Dolores Reade, a former nightclub singer whom he calls Mommy, and their two small adopted children, Hope lives unpretentiously in a rambling 15-room San Fernando Valley house that boasts neither swimming pool nor tennis court. His home life is best described as nonexistent. Said Hope recently: "When I get home these days, my kids think I've been booked there on a personal-appearance tour...
Frank Sinatra bought himself back from Swingster Tommy Dorsey, who had owned a third of him for nearly a year. When the singer quit Dorsey's band last October, he bought off his contract by signing over a third of his earnings-to-come for the next ten years. For full title to himself, the crooner last week paid more than...
...Singer Deanna Durbin and Mercury Player Joseph Cotton are teamed as a west coast debutante and a flyer on leave, who thinks he is out for a good time but finds true love. Posing as a doctor at a Red Cross Blood Bank, the flyer meets the debutante who promptly shuns him, but reconsiders his affection by getting work at the airplane factory where he is stationed...