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...Giddins enumerates a few Crosby firsts you may not have known. When he joined Paul Whiteman in 1927 he became the first full-time vocalist signed to an orchestra. In 1946 he presented the first transcribed radio show and thus, according to Giddins, "single-handedly changed radio from a live-performance to a canned or recorded medium." Crosby also "financed and popularized the development of tape, revolutionizing the recording industry...
...Male Vocalist of the Year...
...Female Vocalist of the Year...
...genius was then barely given a glance, and the band parted ways within a year of Underwater Moonlight’s release. In the U.S., the band never toured the material beyond an eight-day run in metropolitan New York. Following Matador’s reissue of Moonlight, lead vocalist and guitar player Robyn Hitchcock, guitarist Kimberley Rew, bass player Matthew Seligman and drummer Morris Windsor revisited the States as a group for the first time in 20 years, giving many long-time fans the opportunity to hear the material, live and in-person, for the first time ever...
This year, the band also welcomed new members bass guitarist Jesse Andrews '04 and assistant vocalist Malaika Butoyi '04; they incorporated them seamlessly into their funk juggernaut. Butoyi's rising and falling soulful vocals brought new depth to the band's voice. She and the other lead played off each other and the audience very well. Band cofounder Alex Scammon '01 says the band's goal is "to be irresistably groovy. To take grooviness over the top with overpowering horns and in your face attitude...