Word: sung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assured his audience that his father's "All businessmen are s.o.b.s" dictum did not apply to show business. But it was Marilyn who was the hit of the evening, and Kennedy plainly meant it when he said, "I can now retire from politics after having had Happy Birthday sung to me in such a sweet, wholesome...
Joan learned her techniques mostly by herself. Of Mexican-Irish parentage (her father is a physicist with UNESCO in Paris), she had scarcely sung until four years ago, when she took a few informal lessons while attending Boston University. She developed her repertory and style performing for Harvardmen, who flocked to a coffeehouse two blocks from Harvard Square to listen to every Baez syllable with furious concentration. Joan's response to commercial success was to turn down $100,000 worth of concert dates in a single year. "Folk music,'' says she. "depends on intent. If someone desires...
Just Sipping. In the Breakfast at Tiffany's score, he sets off his melodies with a walking bass, extends them with choral and string variations, varies them with the brisk sounds of combo jazz. Moon River is sobbed by a plaintive harmonica, repeated by strings, hummed and then sung by the chorus, finally resolved with the harmonica again. Says Mancini: "It took me a long time to figure out what Holly Golightly was all about. One night after midnight I was still trying. I don't drink much, but I was sipping. And it came...
...Records gave the Dunces top billing in deference to their school or to their musical ability, but in any case they deserve it, for they are clearly the best of the nine groups. The Dunces sing nothing that will be new to their Harvard followers, but rarely have they sung so well...
...times, there are times. Miss Chittenden succeeds with "C'est Magnifique," but she has a little trouble with "Allez-Vous-En." And if all the acting ability in the world could carry off "I Love Paris," Miss Chittenden might have done it; some songs, though, simply have to be sung...