Word: vocalists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supergroup consisting of ex-Yard-bird Jimmy Page and three other young veterans of the British rock scene, Led Zeppelin was launched in 1968 in what Lead Vocalist Robert Plant calls a "smash-bang-wallop" fashion. After a week's tour of Scandinavia, the group knocked out its first ragged LP in 15 hours. The group's spontaneity and free-floating blues improvisations struck a responsive chord among the young, and the LP became a million-dollar seller...
...version that eventually became a hit, the lyric (rendered by an entirely different vocalist) was diffused into "Dance with me, Henry,/Let's dance while the music rolls...
Static Electricity. The firm found a replacement for Diana ("someone who could live in the clean and wholesome way these girls have lived") in Jean Terrell, a soulful but unknown lead vocalist. Then it invested $100,000 in Diana's solo act, $60,000 of which went for elaborate clothes and new arrangements. Without Diana, though, the Supremes sound more homogenized than ever, and audiences have to memorize their wigs to remember which is which...
...There he built a house and settled back to enjoy the good pure life. Now, Smith says, he is suffering mightily from "people pollution." The angry humorist insists that he has never seen "such a goddamned bunch of bigoted, pious, lying, cheating bastards in all my life." . . . The lovely vocalist was on her way to receive Harvard's Hasty Pudding Club Award as Woman of the Year when she was besieged by fans and autograph hunters. One young man had no paper, so he held forth the book he was carrying. The singer hesitated a moment, then signed, handing...
Hosty Pudding Theatricals presented their 20th annual Woman of the Year award last night to singer Dionne Warwick. Pudding members heralded the award as precedent setting. This is the first time. they said, it has ever been given to a vocalist...