Word: vocalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Died. James Leslie (Jim) Marshall, 65, onetime Collier's Far East correspondent, who got a resounding newsbeat (and a crippled arm, damaged vocal cords) in 1937 when he mooched a ride on the U.S. Navy gunboat Panay just before Japanese dive bombers sank it in the Yangtze River; of a heart attack; in Palo Alto, Calif...
...musical show, it had to be all written down, could not take chances with improvisation, and thus lacked the prime ingredient of jazz. Now Bethlehem Records has taken a daring step: with an impressive concentration of forces-including Duke Ellington's band, the Australian Jazz Quintet, a vocal group and ten leading singers-it has recorded the famed work in a real jazz spirit. Each selection is accompanied by a different combo, e.g., Duke Ellington for a highly charged version of Summertime, a creative trumpet backing for I Got Plenty of Nuthin', and plenty of improvised solos...
Baby Doll (Andy Williams; Cadence). This ditty, from background music for the controversial film (TIME, Dec. 24), begins with vocal leers, groans and gasps, but deteriorates into a fairly commonplace rock 'n' roll number. Moral of the lyrics: keep away from Baby Doll...
...liner or bucking the Main Line, singing of a dead husband or chatting with a live horse-she has the urgency of a steam calliope, the assurance of an empress, and a likable low-downness all her own. The Ethel Merman who began as little more than wonderfully lusty vocal cords has expanded and grown into an expertly manipulated stage personality; and in a show business that so often turns the funny into the vulgar, she consistently converts vulgarity into...
Rossini: Sonatas for Strings (Solisti di Zagreb; Vanguard). Teen-age instrumental works by one of the world's most brilliant vocal composers. His irresistible melody is already bubbling, and there is hardly a note that does not solace the ear. The style is as neat, light and humorous as Rossini's later coloratura arias...