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Tammy Grimes (Columbia). Standards like I'm Just Wild About Harry, You Came a Long Way from St. Louis, Anything Goes, sung as never before by the most astonishing voice in show business. Songstress Grimes hollers, husks, lisps, wails, and occasionally scorches the walls, and nobody-least of all the bandleader-can anticipate which she will do next...
...Newest Sound Around (Jeanne Lee and Ran Blake; RCA Victor). And the strangest. Songstress Lee has a foggy, seductive voice that occasionally strikes interesting effects from such laments as Laura and Lover Man. But for the most part, her pace is too languid. Pianist Blake, on the other hand, is a real find-wry, big-toned, and unfailingly inventive...
Married. Jane Froman, 44, throaty songstress (With a Song in My Heart) who made a gallant comeback from near-death in a 1943 plane crash; and Rowland Smith 55, newspaperman in Columbia. Mo.; she for the third time, he for the second; in Columbia...
Born in Miami of a West Indian father, Songstress Williams has retained some of the rhythmic flavor of the Caribbean in her gospel songs. Those wild, vibrant rhythms, plus her instrumental style of phrasing and her phenomenal range, set her apart from every other gospeler. The classic of her repertory is Packin' Up, in which her voice soars and plunges with an exuberance no other gospeler can match...
...voice is not pretty and the technique is sketchy, but Songstress Hester has looks and a gift for appearing as if she were delivering the Truth every time she steps up to a microphone. "Songs which connote your beliefs and your dislikes and the things you love," says she, ""are the songs that make up folk music. " Texas-born, Carolyn studied at the American Theater Wing before turning to folk singing, includes Spanish songs and Southern blues, sung flat-out in a mewing Texas twang that sounds just right for the likes of I will Fly Away: One bright...