Word: songstress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Progressive" jazzman Stan Kenton, accompanied by songstress June Christy, will expound his views on the future of jazz as an American art form tonight at 11 o'clock on WHRV. Kenton copped the current "Downbeat" and Metronome" awards as the best band of the year...
...ducal $75,000 a year, maybe more, if a hoped-for 150 stations buy his transcribed show). As a jockey, the Duke promised to be impressive: his jazz know-how gave his between-platter comments a fine mood indigo. One record, he decided, had a "pear ice cream" flavor; Songstress Sarah Vaughn was "serpentine and opalesque"; Crooner Vic Damone "caressed with satin and gave a back porch intimacy...
Jack Smith Show (Fri. 7:15 p.m., CBS). Guest: trumpet-voiced Nightclub Songstress Nellie Lutcher...
...build a show around a female singer, honey," says Georgia Gibbs. "Look at the way they axed Ginny and Dinah." But next week torchy Songstress Gibbs contradicts herself by stepping into a show, the first that has been tailored to her tiny (5 ft. 1 in.), alluringly tough measure. Georgia is the summer replacement for Eddie Cantor (NBC, Thurs. 10:30 p.m., E.D.T...
Himber took one look at her plain little face and groaned. But she got the job, sang on Himber's Studebaker Champions program for 13 weeks. Then a song plugger told her about a big audition at NBC. Like the songstress in Frederic Wakeman's The Hucksters, she was cautioned to sing "loud and fast. . . and on the beat." About 150 other girls were trying out, too ("An acre of mink and silver fox, honey, and me in a little old suit"). But Lucky Strike's late George Washington Hill liked Fredda's hep style...