Word: songstress
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...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...
...American custom to decorate the Christmas card with a photo of the population explosion in the family. Few in Hollywood are better qualified to do so than Actor-Director José Ferrer and Songstress Rosemary Clooney, who posed beamingly with their three oldest tykes -Miguel José, 5 ; Maria Providencia, 4 ; Gabriel Vicente, 3 - while Rosemary held Monsita Theresa, 2, and Ferrer bear-hugged tiny Rafael Francisco, the eight-month-old newcomer...
With typical Gallic acuity, a Paris newspaper recently tipped its readers off to the fact that the fastest-rising U.S. teen-age singing star is in reality a 32-year-old midget. U.S. editors prefer to accept the claims of her pressagent that Songstress Brenda Lee is barely 16 years old and that her growth pattern is entirely normal (she now stands 4 ft. 11½| in.). The difference of opinion is understandable, for Brenda peers at the world through mascaraed eyes of ageless innocence while crooning her mating songs in a voice that is part whisky, part Negroid...