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...tale loups along wi' a high jink an' diddle, an' forbye 'twill gie the whole bairntime a blype o' kecklin an' snirtlin. Attour, the spunkie singin' o' Brochan Lorn Tana Lorn an' the sicht o' the banks an' braes o' bonnie Argyll in sic a spairge o' green an' gowd is like to hae the harigals out o' ony mon wi' a drap o' Scottish bluid, an' that's the fu' graip o' gulravage...
...Byrd thought at first that he wanted to be a baseball player, but there was too much music around. "My dad ran the community store, an informal meeting place for farm hands on Saturday afternoons," Charlie recalls. "Some would bring their guitars, and there would be a lot of singin', playin' and spittin' tobacco juice. It was a real stompin' brand of music." Charlie's father taught his son the guitar, and at twelve Charlie was playing on a local radio show. World War II saw Charlie in Special Services, touring Europe as an Army...
...Hootie. "When Kraft TV Theater last January scheduled a play about a rock-'n'-roll singer called The Singin' Idol, they wanted Elvis Presley for the part. Presley's manager, an ex-carnival barker called Colonel Tom Parker, said Elvis was too busy, instead touted Sands, who had traveled with Parker's road shows across the cow country. Kraft producers in New York flew Tommy in from Hollywood, where he was working on a TV show called Hometown Jamboree, and were pleased with his lush, throaty voice and easy acting style. After...
...Love Song, a tired, trite, bronchial number far out of Sands's usual rock-'n'-roll line ("But I like all kinds of music"). He also opens a three-week, $30,000 engagement at Manhattan's Roxy before going back to Hollywood to make The Singin' Idol for 20th Century-Fox, with which he has a seven-year contract...
Divorced. Betsy Blair (real name: Elizabeth Boger), 33, reddish-haired actress of stage (The Beautiful People) and screen (Marty); from Gene Kelly, 44, singing-dancing actor-director (An American in Paris, Singin' in the Rain): after 15 years of marriage, one child; in Las Vegas...