Word: vocalist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ANDRÉ PREVIN ALL ALONE (RCA Victor). Without strings, without a big band, without a vocalist or chorus, André tout seul displays his musicianship on piano in a dozen serenely balanced ballads, among them, How Deep Is the Ocean, Angel Eyes, When Sunny Gets Blue and As Time Goes By. While his pensive probings honor the melody, he gives an added dimension with such ingenious and sensitive harmonic devices as playing in the key of F with his left hand in Dancing on the Ceiling, while gently stating the melody with his right hand...
...more than ten years, most U.S. jazz polls have named Frank Sinatra the top male vocalist. Now, for the first time, a rank outsider suddenly shows every sign of deposing the "Chairman of the Board." Lou Rawls is his name, and "soulin' " is his game...
...shake for hanging tough, cool and humorless. The combination might be surefire at the ballot box, but at the box office-sure chill. Or so it seemed until a few weeks ago, when out came Wild Thing, a new 45-r.p.m. recording of a big-beat tune. The vocalist is a dead ringer for Bobby and he purportedly is at a recording session...
Although the platter has just been pressed, it promises to become what the deejays call a "Golden Oldy." The vocalist: Senator Everett Dirlcsen, 70, cutting his first record album, entitled Gallant Men, Stories of the American Adventure. Backed by orchestra and chorus, Ev recites the history of the Mayflower, The Revolution and other landmarks of U.S. history, including the Gettysburg Address, which he performs as a sort of husky Bach fugue...
...Capone boutonnieres. The sport of the day is mainly sauntering, not shopping, but, as Cathy McGowan explains, "it's a very serious business. The point is to show off your close gear, and you have to do it in the proper style." Cathy, with Mick Jagger, 21, lead vocalist for the Rolling Stones, stops in at the Guys and Dolls coffeehouse, where a pretty blonde teenager, her yellow and black P.V.C. (polyvinyl chloride) miniskirt hiked high over patterned stockings, perches staring at a copy of the French Vogue. Mick leans over her. She beams. "Luv," he says...