Word: singing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GEORGY GIRL (Capitol). The movie's title song was performed by Australia's Seekers, who sing it here along with some of the more lyrical new standards, Yesterday and California Dreamin'. Old-fashioned melodic and gently harmonic pop singing takes on a strong folk twist in such numbers as Well, Well, Well and Turn, Turn, Turn. Sweet, sweet, sweet...
...Jews have been persecuted in the West for ten centuries and 6,000,000 Jews were gassed in Germany only 25 years ago. For more than three centuries, Christianity has ministered to the American Negro's self-hatred; and today, many black Africans and some black Americans still sing Wash Me Whiter than Snow, Lord. Incredible...
...misunderstand--there is nothing really hateful about Sadler. His story has its own appeal. A no-good kid from a broken home who likes to sing joins the Air Force, gets shipped to Japan and wins a black belt for judo, then becomes an Army paratrooper, and finally winds up in Special Forces school where he writes down a song that has been on his mind for years. He copyrights it and sends it to a publisher, where it languishes for months while Sadler plays medic and sings some more in Vietnam. An ABC film crew happens by the camp...
...their more famous compatriot. One, Roy Allen Stewart, will be retried in Los Angeles on murder-robbery charges later this month. In New York City, Stick-up-Man Michael Vignera has already pleaded guilty to a lesser robbery charge, and is now doing 7½ to 10 years in Sing Sing; the first time his sentence was 30 to 60 years. And in Sacramento, Calif., Bank Robber Carl Calvin Westover was found guilty again and sentenced last week to a 30-year term, just as he had been before...
...reserved lad whose most burning concern at the moment is simply growing up. It has not been easy. His father, aware of the rigors of the concert life, never encouraged him to become a musician. But in a family that rewarded the children with a nickel if they could sing a pitch-perfect F sharp first thing each morning, Peter's future was certainly predictable.* "I first thought of being a composer," he says. "Then I thought about conducting. Then, gradually, I became resigned to being a pianist." At the age of eleven, he entered Philadelphia's Curtis...