Word: vocalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...voice-something like three parts fog to one part frog. A doctor, upon hearing him for the first time, rushed up to caution: "With a throat like that, you should be home in bed." But that hoarse, honey-cured quality carried a certain tranquilizing caress that was his vocal signature and sustained him admirably through the years while legions of belters and bleaters flourished and died. With moistened lips and a flashing, yard-wide smile, he let a song uncurl from his cavernous mouth with the nonchalance of a man blowing smoke rings. He savored each vowel until it whispered...
...never thought of singing until one night, at the insistence of a club manager, he reluctantly intoned Sweet Lorraine to placate a free-spending drunk bellowing requests from the bar. In 1943 he recorded his first vocal number, Straighten Up and Fly Right, which flew right up the bestseller charts. He followed in 1946 with The Christmas Song ("Chestnuts roasting on an open fire . . ."), which became an alltime Yule classic...
...uncanny knack for catching adolescent ears with nearly every record he produces. Almost all of them celebrate post-pubescent passion: Be My Baby, Then He Kissed Me, Wait Til' My Bobby Gets Home. Spector has already made bigtime teen-market recording stars of a succession of singers and vocal groups such as the Ronettes, Bobb B. Soxx and the Blue Jeans, Darlene Love, the Crystals...
...Though Semiramide is musically the most brilliant of Rossini's 35 operas, it has not been staged in the U.S. since 1906. Written in 1823 as a florid showcase for the human voice, Semiramide is among the most fiendishly difficult of all operas to sing, a kind of vocal decathlon that requires a range and stylistic flexibility that few if any modern-day singers would or could tackle-that is, until Horne and Sutherland came along. But both their husbands decided that not even Rossini's musical scrollwork was adequate to display the full virtuosity of their...
From the beginning, Phillips' vocal conservatism won public attention. Time magazine cited his election as an indication of rampant conservatism sweeping the Harvard campus. Not suprisingly, the National Review found it encouraging that a conservative led Harvard's student council. Thus far, the publicity was just accidental; no one could blame Phillips for being newsworthy...