Word: crooning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mechanical crib called "Night Nurse" was demonstrated in Manhattan by Dr. Sydney Norton Baruch, consulting engineer for the Air Force. Designed to help busy mothers, the motorized creche also will croon lullabies from a recording of the kind mother sings...
...Comes Marching Home.) He kept plugging, finally recorded Riders and some of his others at his own expense. Then Nature Boy Eden Ahbez (TIME, May 3, 1948) sandaled into the act. He heard Riders and liked it. The song had hair on its chest, and would be hard to croon with mush in the mouth. Ahbez took the music to Burl Ives, who quickly recorded it for Columbia. By the time Bing Crosby got it onto wax for Decca last month, and Vaughn Monroe had done a big, first-class production job for Victor, Riders was roweling hard...
...Monday nights the crowds at Los Angeles' Palladium are often on the thin side, but last week the evening brought out 7,622 croon fans, come to listen to a voice that one of its admirers once described as having "the virility of a goat and the delicacy of a flower petal." They sat patiently on the huge, circular dance floor through the preliminary stuff-Ike Carpenter's band, the Bobby True Trio, but when the main event came on they howled with delight. And when 35-year-old, toupee-topped Crooner Frankie Laine finally let them have...
...routine: he comes down into his radio audience with a portable mike. First he parks his gum with someone in the front row and retrieves it at the end of the hour, which is good for big laughs both times. Then he perches coyly on ladies' laps to croon his songs. Afterwards he plants a kiss on the prettiest girl he can find. The effect is uproarious...
Last week, an Austrian court declared the law unconstitutional, on grounds that it alienated property rights and ran counter to national interest. Bustards, which make a sound between a croon and a boom when excited, could again breathe easy. But Carinthian Socialists were not discouraged. Next on their list for nationalization: fishing...