Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pair of Blue Eyes (Shirley Harmer; M-G-M). With a voice warm and sweet enough to make any passable tune sound good. Songstress Harmer turns this little mood piece (from the film Song 0' My Heart) into a real holiday...
...Song from Désirée (Anna Maria Alberghetti; Mercury). Italy's young coloratura is quaveringly miscast as a pop singer in this pseudo-Empire waltz, sounds at home only when vocalizing in the higher reaches...
...omitted from the guest lists of two White House dinners last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), happily dawdled with a new toy: a fancy electric organ which his handsome wife Jean gave him for Christmas. After a few lessons, he had already learned how to pick out one tune. The song: Old Black...
...couple of years he worked as a second-rate song-and-dance man, a little too far from the big crowds and the big money to be really happy. Last summer, in a Paris church, Sugar Ray remembers: "It suddenly hit me-a strange desire to fight again. It just conquered me. I figure it was God's will." Early this month, Sugar Ray took down his gloves and tried them out against a bumbling pug named Joe Rindone. He won by a knockout, but the fight proved little. Last week in Chicago, Sugar Ray squared off again-against...
...symphony, as prodigal with melodies as a bargain basement with wares, innocently loaded with hints of other compositions, but still characteristic and convincing. The concerto, expertly played by Harpist Nicanor Zabaleta, was paler, but it did have 'some gripping episodes, notably the haunting harp harmonics accompanying a string song in the slow movement. Both works were put in the shade by the concluding piece, Chôros No. 6 (written in 1926), a fine tropical thunderstorm accompanied by pagan drums...