Word: vocalist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Midst laurels stood: Stunny Girl Barbra Streisand, 22, named to two Grammies, the recording industry's top honor -best pop album, best female vocalist; U.S. Socialist Leader Norman Thomas, 79, decorated with the Star of Solidarity First Class, Italy's highest citation, for his support of the fight to free Italy from Fascism; Paul Hoffman, 73, managing director of the U.N. Special Fund, presented with the American Freedom Association's 1964 World Peace Award; Film Cowboy and Multi-millionaire Investor Gene Autry, 56, Novelist Pearl Buck, 71, Litton Industries Chairman Charles ("Tex") Thornton, 50, and Architect Minoru...
Whatever happened to Chopsticks'? In Tokyo, Japanese jazzmen fell in line to jam with Vibraharpist Lionel Hampton, 49, packing them in on a five-week barnstorm tour of Japan. His regular cats augmented with local talent-including a belting new gal vocalist, Mayumi Kuroda, 21-Hamp gave the customers "integrated music" stomped out by an "Asiatic Harlem" band. "The more I travel," says he, "the more I'm convinced that jazz isn't native to the States. These boys can read the flyspecks off wallpaper...
Some old tunes are apt to sound mighty familiar when the Tommy Dorsey band goes touring this May with its new featured vocalist, Frank Sinatra Jr., 19, son of Sinatra's first marriage. Raised by his mother Nancy in Beverly Hills, Frank Jr. quietly attended local public and private schools, still plans to continue drama studies at the University of Southern California. But once he cuts loose on the songs that Daddy taught him, history may well repeat itself. During an impromptu public appearance at Disneyland last summer, one youngish matron came up to the bandstand and purred: "That...
...jazz concert Friday will feature Gary Berger's Big Band with vocalist Liz Fillo, the Blue Notes, and the Peter Loeb Trio. It will also include a jazz ballet to Stan Kenton's arrangement of "West Side Story" danced by Ciji Ware '64 and Dean Stolber...
Anticipating a torrent of corrections from local jazz buffs, I would like to apologize here and now for consistently misspelling the name of the vocalist with the Gary Berger band in my review yesterday. Her name is Liz FILLO, not "Filo." Mea cullpa...