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...Think Things Over? and How Deep Is the Ocean? (Dinah Washington; Mercury). One of the best of today's blues singers wails her way expertly through a torchy ballad, does a passable blues version of a Berlin standard...
...Little Esther" Jones is only 14; but she is a big girl (137 lbs.) with a big voice and a following that may set other coffee-colored coloraturas such as Lena Home and Dinah Washington looking over their shoulders. One of Little Esther's records, Double Crossing Blues, has been among the ten bestselling "race" records for 22 weeks; two others, Cupid's Boogie and Mistrustin' Blues, have been up in the big time more than a month...
...This week, 48-year-old Producer-Director Liebman displays his real virtuosity by riding two vehicles at once: he is putting on another 1½-hour musical, the Easter special Star-Spangled Revue (Sun. 5:30 p.m., E.S.T., NBC-TV), sponsored by Frigidaire and featuring Bob Hope, Beatrice Lillie, Dinah Shore and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., plus his own company...
...international disc jockey, Martin Block, whose weekly half-hour of music and informal chatter has become the Voice of America's most popular program. Even behind the Iron Curtain, where Communists are furiously attacking "decadent American music," thousands of recalcitrant Slavs continue to carry a torch for Dinah Shore or Gene Autry, Benny Goodman or Lena Home. Last week the Czech government skirmished with some of these incorrigibles and came off badly scorched...
...fancy last year, Loesser polished up the lyrics and inserted Baby into the score of a picture, Neptune's Daughter (see CINEMA), that he was doing for MGM. Spotting it as a natural, record companies put their best boy-&-girl teams to recording it. First with the best: Dinah Shore and Buddy Clark (Columbia), Margaret Whiting and Johnny Mercer (Capitol). Mercury even got Frank and Lynn Loesser on wax. MGM, which peddles records as well as motion pictures, and originally had the inside track on Baby, was left at the post and lamely put out a record...