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...take. CBS's Vic Damone Show (Mon. 9:30 p.m., E.D.T.) and Russ Morgan Show (Sat. 9:30 p.m., E.D.T.) and NBC's Snooky Lanson (Tues. and Thurs. 7:30 p.m., E.D.T.) are purely routine musical variety shows, but Russ Morgan has the edge because of his vocalist, Helen O'Connell, a throaty chanteuse who knows how to take over a song and make it her own. NBC's Julius La Rosa (Sat. 8 p.m., E.D.T.) is relaxed but no real substitute for Perry Como...
...woman vocalist is one of the music trade's most valuable properties. The smaller labels, long envious of the majors' near-monopoly of tried-and-true stars, have been scouring the boondocks of musicmaking, in a search for new talent they can call their own. Result: the biggest crop of new names in years. So far, none of their finds is likely to jeopardize the record sales of such old reliables as Jo Stafford and Dinah Shore, but some are well worth a listen. Bethlehem puts its money on Helen Carr (Why Do I Love You) and Terry...
...program. Soon after that, she had singing jobs again, swept along by the huge current jazz boom. "I dug up my old antique gowns - crepe and satin -and my long beads and fancy combs and shoes with rhinestones on the heels." The Music Was Different. Today, billed as vocalist with the Scobey combo, Lizzie is playing some of the country's better-known jazz spots (including, last month, Chicago's Blue Note). Everywhere, she becomes the favorite as soon as she opens her generous mouth...
Last October a manager offered to book her as a vocalist. "He told me I could never learn to sing, but I could sort of 'style' a song." Lillian Briggs began to get around...
Bandleader Harry James heard Frank sing, and took him on as a featured vocalist. Six months later the great Tommy Dorsey himself bought Frank away from Harry at the princely price of $110 a week. Two years with the Dorsey band smoothed a lot of rough edges off the kid from Hoboken, and raised at the same time some alarmingly sensual yet sensationally effective bumps on his singing style...