Word: vocalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...matter how some listeners may flinch at Bing's vocal wobble or his persistently overeasy manner, it is an impressive performance, for Crosby is identified with a long parade of popular tunes, from Pennies from Heaven to White Christmas to The Bells of St. Mary's. The U.S. may have changed in 20 years, but not Crosbyland: the emotions are pleasant, never heated, and just a bit weary, the words are confidently unsophisticated, the crooning exactly what it was when Bing made the first record put out by Decca (Just a Wearyin' for You) in 1934. Decca...
...Till You Hear from Me (1947). Highlights: Kay Davis' wordless, sensuous crooning in the Creole Love Call, the elegant interplay of Johnny Hodges' alto and Harry Carney's bouncing baritone in I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart. Baby Cox's unforgettable vocal growl in The Mooche...
...with a vocal by Johnny Amoroso. The soupy melody is currently the No. 2 hit in Britain. Said Ackerman: "A lot of squares will think this is an immortal work." But apparently not enough: turned down...
...forces. But Castillo Armas, convinced that Diaz was just a front for Arbenz, had said as much by going on with his war, notably by bombing Guatemala City's Matamoros Fort. Peurifoy agreed heartily with Castillo Armas' action. The ambassador had learned that under a cover of vocal antiCommunism, the doublecrossing Diaz was letting Arbenz' Red advisers run to safety. Diaz was clearly no change. Peurifoy got in touch with Monzón, known as an outspoken antiCommunist...
...supported Arbenz from duty and in the belief that Arbenz' land reform was good; there was nothing to prove that he saw Red influence over the President as a critical problem. But his first acts in power were to 1) form a three-man junta that included a vocal antiCommunist, 2) outlaw the Communist Party and 3) fire Colonel Rogelio Cruz Wer, head of Guatemala's notorious police and the Reds' only important sympathizer of high military rank...