Word: vocalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even when Monroe records (There I've Said It Again, Ballerina, et al.) began selling like hot cakes (5,000,000 in 1948) and his name began to climb toward the top of popularity polls for the country's most popular male vocalist and bandleader, he still kept up his barnstorming. (He still averages 200 one-night stands, covers 50,000 miles a year.) A small-town boy himself, he was never too busy to launch local Community Chest or Christmas Seal drives...
...Trombonist Jack Teagarden, Pianist Earl ("Father") Hines, Drummer Cozy Cole, Clarinetist Barney Bigard and Bass Fiddler Arvell Shaw, plus Vocalist Velma Middleton...
Clarinetist Ed Hall, who is currently at the Savoy, and several follow musicians headline a series of eight entertainment acts. Pat Rainey, former vocalist at the Campus Room and now at the Hotel Fensgate; Marie McDonald, not "The Body" but a New England Tributary Theater singer, and Eric Victor, from the cast of the musical revue "Inside U. S. A." are the other professional performers who will be on hand...
Wrote Herald Tribune Music Critic Jerome D. Bohm in next morning's paper: "In 20 years of music reviewing and in twice that number spent in listening to most of the world's best singers, I have encountered no greater voice or vocalist ... a true contralto of enormous range . . . Where have the Metropolitan's talent scouts been that they have neglected to engage [Elena Nikolaidi]?" Said the Times: ". . . Rare brilliance . . . eminent musicality . . . velvety smoothness." By 10 a.m., phone calls were buzzing in from Impresario S. Hurok, Chicago, San Francisco-and the Met itself...
...group is composed of Larry Eanet '52, trombone; Hoagy Dunham '52, bass; Dave Sutherland '50, guitar; Walt Gifford '52, drums; Bruce Elwell, Milton Academy, trumpet; Oliver Taylor, Belmont Hills School, clarinet; and Barbara Leacock, Wellesley, vocalist...