Word: sung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...record business, and soon teen-age fans deserted. Eddie's last big hit record was Oh! My Papa, and it was cut in 1954. Recently he has devoted himself fulltime to woman troubles (a divorce from Debbie Reynolds, a marriage to Liz Taylor), and he had not sung in public for a year and a half when he stepped up to the microphone last week...
...been that way ever since 1947 when New Orleans-born Mahalia Jackson recorded a Gospel song called Move On Up a Little Higher for a small record company. The disk sold a whopping 2,000,000 copies, and Mahalia who had sung Gospel songs in neighborhood churches since her childhood, turned her mention from her Chicago beauty shop to push her professional career. From the start audiences recognized her, as did London's New Statesman, as "the most majestic voice of faith" of her generation. The obvious sincerity of Mahalia's belief moves audiences even when they cannot...
Short and thick-bodied, the boys bounce in front of the mike on the toes of their elevator shoes. They open with a half-sung patter about how hard they have worked on the act and how glad they are to be there. Then they charge down among the first few tables and shake hands. Phillip recalls that when they were children on their father's ranch at Elko, Nev., "there wasn't much to do of a night except sit on the front porch and harmonize." They do, uncertainly, in husky voices that resemble each other...
...which will soon be increased to an hour-Trans World has called on an American couple of Russian Orthodox origin, Nicholas and Rose Leonovich, who live in Morocco. Their typical program begins with folk music, gradually changing to church music-instrumental at first, then sung-followed by a Christian message...
Most of the robbers, he eventually decided, live in the U.S. In 1935 Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art organized a major exhibition of work by Le Corbusier, and he came across the Atlantic to see it. From the early days when he had sung the praises of American engineers and envied American skyscrapers. New York had been "the fantastic city, the temple of the New World." The disillusion was total. He took one look at the crowded canyons and announced: "Your skyscrapers are too small!" The East and Hudson rivers were hidden; the mighty Atlantic was lost. Instead...