Word: singerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swung high & low, never quite ranking with the Cantors, Durantes, Wynns. One reason: he is more wisecracker than zany. Another may be: with his marital mishaps, he has had too much publicity in the wrong section of the papers. But for two things he is famed: as the Jazz Singer and as Momma Jessel's son Georgie...
...files. Instead of giving the tune to a conventional crooner, Warners picked Dooley Wilson. He is something special. He has one of the warmest personalities that ever got into show business. He sings with understatement and a sense of mood worthy of a great lieder singer. Dooley gave As Time Goes By everything he had. When Ingrid Bergman in the film says that no one can sing the song like Sam (Dooley), millions of moviegoers have agreed with...
Maurice Evans' favorite scene has seductive Violet Salve, a Filipino blues singer, cast as a stripper. When she warbles The Government policy in this war Is to do the job you're suited for, the soldiers chorus back And your job is taking off your clothes, which they then proceed to help...
Winner among male singers was Miguelito Valdes (real name Eugenio Lazaro Miguel Izquierdo Valdes y Hernandez), whose vigorous song-shouting has been featured with both Cugat and Machito. With the latter's band, big, bull-like Valdes recently recorded an album of his guarachas (risque ballads) and pregons (street-vendor songs) for Decca. He sings in a variety of moods from the comic to the truculent, but always with a full head of steam. He grew up on the Havana docks, became a prize fighter, started as a singer when the Havana Riverside Casino fished him out of tough...
...substitute would be an improvement, and Una Mac Carlisle is a very great one. She's a protege of Fats Waller, contributing mightily to his classic record of "I Can't Give You Anything But Love." Una is no world-better as a pianist, but she is a fine singer...