Word: tenore
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Enrico Caruso and the phonograph drove the parlor tenor to the bathtub. Now Columbia Records' Mitch Miller is trying to lure him out from behind his shower curtain. Miller, a now inaudible oboist who is nonplaying captain of Columbia's pop musicians, worked up a gimmick just corny enough to click: a chorus of 28 men singing simple, slow arrangements of the old, golden songs, and an album-jacket invitation to listeners to join in the schmalz...
Welcome Lightning. While the Democrats hobbled along, William Francis Quinn broke into a steady run. He ran a hot campaign for the territorial senate in 1956, and lost; but he learned enough to see that people liked his Irish charm and Irish tenor. As a member of the Hawaiian statehood commission, Quinn also made a good impression in Washington, where Interior Secretary Fred Seaton put him down on his list as a sure comer...
...owes much of its vigor to Minnesota-born Impresario Frank Forest, 54. Forest studied agricultural engineering at the University of Minnesota, later helped found a profitable pharmaceutical firm (White Laboratories of Kenilworth, N.J.), gave up business to follow a lifelong interest in singing. He spent twelve years performing leading tenor roles in opera houses all over Europe, also appeared in a number of films (Champagne Waltz, I'll Take Romance with Grace Moore). In 1955 he started pouring his energies and money into the creation of the Empire State Festival...
...spite of Mr. Dyer-Bennett's obvious skill in singing what one observer called the "la de da" ballads, he becomes, after steady listening, as entertaining as a ten-year-old Irish tenor singing "Danny Boy" for a local talent show. Dyer-Bennett's voice, unfortunately, lacks that twist of lemon peel which, for example, made Hank Williams something more than another hillbilly singer...
Sonny Rollins and the Big Brass (Metrojazz). On one side of this disk, Tenor Saxophonist Rollins silhouettes his dry, spare sax sound against a textured curtain of trumpets and trombones, with striking effect in such numbers as Who Cares? and Far Out East. On the other side, backed only by bass and drums, he noodles his way through a series of willowy inventions (on Manhattan, Body and Soul) as continuously surprising as a meandering country road...