Word: victor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other versions are even farther away from the original. Les Paul (Capitol) gives it a zithery sound, Tito Puente (Victor) a Latin beat, and Billy Vaughan (Dot) features an off-key whistler. But most versions retain the original's deliberately poverty-stricken melody-five of its eight phrases end on the same querulous note...
Behind the scenes, the music was less harmonious than on screen. RCA Victor, co-sponsor of the show, thought it would be a good idea to load the program with RCA recording stars. As it worked out, RCA succeeded in adding two of its performing artists to Hurok's original list of ten. Hurok managed to keep Violinist Stern, who records for Columbia, and Soprano Tebaldi, who records for London, in the show. Hurok and RCA then faced an onslaught by the Metropolitan Opera's General Manager Rudolf Bing, who refused to allow Tebaldi...
...Born. To Victor Borge, 47, Danish-born pianist-comedian, and Sarahbel Roach Borge, 35: their second child (his third, her fourth), a daughter; in Waterbury, Conn. Name: Frederikke...
...composer, Victor I. Ziskin '59, has written 16 of the show's songs including the overture. His lyricist is Jay Cavior '57. The Pudding will retain four songs written last fall by Varick Bacon '55 and Clarke Tyler...
Last week United Lutherans' Northwest Synod confirmed the action of their trial committee by upholding the heresy conviction of Pastors Crist and Wrigley. But in solid Protestant tradition, and despite the Fry letter, leaders of Victor Wrigley's congregation at Gethsemane Lutheran Church in Brookfield, Wis. pledged themselves to stick with him, even if that meant possible legal action by the synod...