Word: vocalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some highly successful reincarnations of the barbershop quartet have been producing a lot of lather in the pop-music business. Today's male vocal groups generally sport teen-age beanies, turtleneck sweaters and cloyingly cute names: the Four Aces, Four Freshmen, Hilltoppers, Platters, Pied Pipers, Crew-Cuts. The most refreshing recruits to this fraternity are four sober-suited young men who call themselves-no less cutely-the Hi-Lo's, but make a specialty of kidding the beanies off their brothers...
...pitch and sure-fire sense of attack into one of their jazz-flavored re-arrangements (You Took Advantage of Me, Stormy Weather), the Hi-Lo's suggest the Budapest String Quartet gone mad. But this quartet is not tied to strings, generally achieves its best effects with vocal approximations of all kinds of instruments. Their voices may sound like a brass section, and often they have the sculptured phrasing of a big band. They hit the opening phrases of My Sugar is So Refined with the rubbery beat and buttery sound of a good sax section. Then First Tenor...
...vocal expressions of dissatisfaction was last June's i. e., a general damnation of Harvard education which suffered because its heat was grades, i.e. said...
...scientists agree with Dr. Libby. Most vocal is Physicist Ernest O. Lawrence of the University of California, Nobel Prizewinner (1939) and inventor of the cyclotron, who finds it "beyond my comprehension" that any reputable scientist should worry about fallout from weapons tests. He thinks the tests could continue forever without damage...
Like most country singers, Husky and Robbins specialize in agonizing tales of unrequited love, told to the metronome thrub-dub of a guitar. As a concession to the pop market, both have added background support from mewing vocal ensembles. Of the two, Missouri-born Singer Husky, 31, is the better vocalist, and in his current hit, Gone (Capitol), has the more heart-rending material to work with ("Since you've gone/ The moon, the sun, the stars in the sky/ Know all the reasons...