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...trois cloches" by Jean Villard) or the Paul Anka "All of a Sudden My Heart Sings" (by Jean-Marie Blanvillain and Laurent Henri Herpin) or "Mack the Knife" (which had five versions in the Top 20 from 1956 to 1959, including Bobby Darin's #1) had come to Tin Pan Alley through Ellis Island. This was music they heard, liked and bought. I also doubt that the decade's record producers were trying to broaden the masses' musical palette; they probably figured that, since catchy tunes were hard to find, they might try searching abroad for exploitable material. And since...
...realize that the bu-bu-bu- boos were original, natural and, to his widening audience, deeply satisfying. It was also wonderfully adaptable to the musical genres he would investigate for the rest of his career: Irish songs, cowboy ditties and hymns, as well as the standard Tin Pan Alley and Hollywood...
DIED. JACK HALEY JR., 67, Emmy Award-winning director as well as producer and prolific documentarian who directed the 1974 star-studded That's Entertainment; in Santa Monica, Calif. Haley, whose father played the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz, was married five years to Liza Minnelli...
...From the tin box to the ceramic jar, Ablow always targets similar subject matter, and often from memory. Although Ablow says most of his work is purely visual, with no aspirations to greater social or metaphysical meaning, his objects sometimes assume a more personal significance. In “Waiting,” which was conceived as a memento mori for a dead friend, a ponderous swath of fabric slumps above a somber procession of empty cobalt cups...
...Checkpoint, a tin-roof shantytown next to the entrance to the former base, those young Catholic girls have had to grow up quickly. Melinda Basilan started working the strip stage at the Tahitian Queen when she was 16 years old. Now, she has two children. Stephanie is three, and her father is English. John Michael is two; his father is an American from Georgia. The Yank has promised to visit in May, but no one in the dirt alley is holding his breath. Checkpoint is filled with mothers waiting for fathers who never come back...