Word: tetrazzini
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Italian-born laborer, Tozzi, 37, was introduced to music at home on a phonograph stacked with Caruso and Tetrazzini records and with contemporary pop hits (one favorite: "It ain't no sin to take off your skin and dance around in your bones"). Although he took voice lessons, he majored in biology at Chicago's DePaul University. But jobs were scarce when Tozzi got out of the Army in 1945, and he took to singing wherever he could-in the WGN Theater of the Air chorus, with Skitch Henderson and his orchestra at a local nightclub, at local...