Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tenor sang in a voice harsh from top to bottom, unsure of every transition from mezza voice to full voice and, by the end of the evening, badly hoarse. On every note he worked audibly to stay in tune, but for all his trouble he was consistently flat; occasional sounds had no pitch at all. In the simplest pieces he was mildly affecting, but whatever he thought should be grandiose was rendered with grunts, gasps, bodily jerks, and fierce glances that are even sillier in recital than they are on stage...
...Gaulle bounces," or "Under the spreading psychiatry"), nothing diminishes the pure delight of his tour in a thousand dialects through the world's locker rooms, or his Begin the Beguine as sung by a matinee idol who can do everything but carry a tune. His routines include six chimpanzees and ten singers (the humans are taller), but mostly Kaye depends, as he always has, on his audience, elicits the responses he wants as surely as if he were playing a keyboard instead of rows of strange and private souls...
With the Post set solidly on top in Washington, Noyes might do well to keep in mind the ditty that a Star promotion manager once wrote, to the tune of Live a Little...
...number have a vaguely Japanese air about them, but essentially they are down-to-earth American. Silver's percussive, exciting piano is accented by the tight playing of the group and written bridges between solos, a favorite Silver device, give the music unity and discipline. The title tune and the rhythmic Too Much Sake are the best numbers on the record, but all of them are good...
...When President Kennedy himself proposed an 8?-per-lb. tariff increase on imported cottons to win cotton-state support for his Trade Expansion Act, he was turned down by the usually compliant U.S. Tariff Commission. Since then, the Administration has vaguely proposed to subsidize domestic cotton buyers to the tune of 5? per lb., which would cost the taxpayers another $225 million or so a year. Partly because domestic textile men are holding out for a still higher subsidy, that idea has got nowhere...