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...Carbon Copy. The almost eerie resemblance to her mother is more than superficial. Her notes sometimes wobble with Judy's vibrato, and she has the same warming urgency and involvement in her performance. Says Singer Gail Martin, Dean Martin's daughter and Liza's childhood friend: "Her mannerisms are like her mother's. The gestures, that whole nervous thing?not quite getting the words out, and the fingers all over the place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Liza--Fire, Air and a Touch of Anguish | 2/28/1972 | See Source »

...sing much too slowly. Ernest Triplett as Nick Shadow, Rakewell's servant, dominates the production, with both a good voice and an understanding of his role that makes him also a strong actor. Eunice Alberts as Baha, the bearded lady, is a fine comic heroine, with a rich vibrato that nicely complements her outlandishly ornate costume. Irene Elvin as Anne Truelove, Tom's true love is a fine singer, although not as good an actress as Miss Alberts...

Author: By Michael Ryan, | Title: Opera The Rake's Progress at Lowell House, tonight and tomorrow | 4/24/1971 | See Source »

...money concert circuit, the Dead stayed close to home and worked on their music. They were the source, but their style found outlets in many places. (Tom Wolfe's Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test gives them their due: ". . .-the sound of the Beatles' Sergeant Pepper album and the high-vibrato sounds of the Jefferson Airplane, the Mothers of Invention, and many other groups-the mothers of it all were the Grateful Dead...

Author: By William S. Beckett, | Title: Come Hear Uncle John's Band . . . | 1/7/1971 | See Source »

Married. Donovan (real name: Donovan Leitch), 24, Britain's versatile, vibrato-voiced minstrel (Isle of Islay): and Lynda Lawrence, 23, girl friend of the Rolling Stones' late Brian Jones; both for the first time; in Windsor, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 12, 1970 | 10/12/1970 | See Source »

...Chuck Berry song, "Queenie," "from when you were about thirteen years old." The Stones oeuvre might be subtitled Anthems of Young America, and they finally cut loose on the song that made rock and roll a movement, "Satisfaction," Richard ripping off huge Chuck Berry chords and adding an cery vibrato, Jagger doing an Otis-like "I can't getta no, no, no, no," that faded into "You can't always get what you want" back to "we're gonna get ourselves, some satisfaction," the audience lost on the Stones/Satisfaction myth. "Honky Tonk Women," dedicated to "the loose women...

Author: By Joel Haycock, | Title: The flea-bit painted monkey Got Live If You Want It | 12/9/1969 | See Source »

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