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...harmonica for Christmas in an attempt to learn a not-quite-as-cool instrument that was significantly easier. The idea was eventually to play blues harmonica so that, you know, if I ever wanted to form a blues band, I could play the harp and be the lead singer. That didn't pan out so well. About the only thing I can do is play along with some Bob Dylan songs like "Like a Rolling Stone," and even then I don't really know if I'm any good because I won't let anyone else listen. I would probably...
...fact, do much of anything during his college career--Keyes' 1972 yearbook entry lists not a single extracurricular activity or club. But college friend Marlo Lewis recalls not only Keyes' enthusiasm for distance running, but his love for singing opera. "He was very proficient as an opera singer, singing in churches and choirs, giving recitals--one of the nicest voices I've ever heard, a beautiful tenor," says Lewis. He could also pick out tunes on the guitar--Mansfield recalls a particular fondness for Cornell fight songs. He lived in Adams House with Bill Kristol '73, son of famed...
When Rosemary Clooney first heard Come On-a My House, she was underwhelmed. "I thought the lyric ranged from incoherent to just plain silly," she recalls in her engaging memoir Girl Singer: An Autobiography (Doubleday), written with Joan Barthel. But Clooney soon changed her mind when the playful song catapulted her to stardom. "I'd gone from being just another girl singer to a full-page photo in LIFE, from 'Rosemary who?' to a household word," she marvels...
Clooney, known now to a new generation as the aunt of actor George Clooney, tells a good yarn. Still the likable girl-next-door, despite life's vicissitudes, she describes how she went from being a schoolgirl in kneesocks in Maysville, Ky., to a Big Band singer, performing with the likes of Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett. There were bumps along the way: a failed marriage to the unfaithful Jose Ferrer, addiction to prescription drugs, even a stay in a psychiatric ward. Life got so blurry, she flushed a 7 1/2-carat diamond down the toilet. But Clooney is back...
...long time later, Marian Anderson would recall her early years in south Philadelphia. "I'd think, 'Can't I sing? Can't I be a singer because I'm colored?'" Nobody was more entitled to that musical success, proclaims the meticulously researched new biography Marian Anderson: A Singer's Journey (Scribner), by Brandeis professor of music Allan Keiler. By 10 years old, Anderson was already known locally as "the baby contralto." But it would take an uphill fight, time spent in Europe, even the intercession of Eleanor Roosevelt, for her to triumph over discrimination in the U.S. It was only...