Word: songstress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gave up her TV show to juggle benefit balls and paint. Working in her Park Avenue apartment and at her Westbury, L.I., country home, she developed what one art authority called "an innocent eye." Wondered she: "Is that good or bad?" Last week, good or bad, the ex-songstress had her first one-woman show (with proceeds to cerebral-palsy research), sold 34 canvases on opening day to such prominent gallerygoers as Mrs. Laurance Rockefeller. Adele Astaire Douglass, Elizabeth Arden Graham, Mrs. George Baker, Mrs. Winthrop Aldrich and Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock...
Perry Como's Music Hall (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Perry's visitors this week include Songstress Janet Blair and the topflight comedy team of Mike Nichols and Elaine May. Color...
...voice is considerably more seasoned than the career. Although its owner is barely 20, it has a comfortably upholstered sound and is used with discretion. To put new juice into jaded numbers, Songstress Trask has a habit of singing tantalizingly off pitch for a number of bars, or of interjecting a caressing wobble, or of suddenly, with a crack of her high-heeled foot, breaking and reshaping the beat. The image goes with the voice: in her nightclub appearances she frequently appears in a skintight, flesh-colored satin skirt and turquoise sweater with matching eyelids, and bumps and swivels...
...answers to Elvis, recorded by girl singers, start out the same ("Yes, I'm lonesome tonight"), but they respond in different ways to what turns out to be the nub of Elvis' complaint: "Honey, you lied when you said you loved me." Not at all, bleats Songstress Thelma Carpenter, with the air of a forgiving wife: "Deep in your heart you know who lied." Songstress Jo Ann Perry is ready to meet Elvis halfway ("Elvis, darling, come back to me/ I swear faithfully/ The curtain will never come down"), but she tries to shift the blame...
...anonymous third party ("Should I hang up/ Or will you tell him/ He'll have to go?"). Before he had even gone, RCA Victor was out with Tell Laura I Love Her, a ballad gurgled out to his beloved by a dying stock-car racer. Laura herself (Songstress Marilyn Michaels) provided the inevitable followup: Tell Tommy I Miss Him. Dazzled at the prospects, the record companies have issued Save the Last Dance for Me and I'll Save the Last Dance for You; Please Help Me, I'm Falling and I Can't Help...