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While theoretical academics and self-conscious modernists shy away from the sentimental pitfalls of such subjects as love, sex and death, the country and western crooners would give the human tragi-comedy full unashamed voice.
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Hundreds of fans rose to their feet to sing the 1970s crooner's most famous song.
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The veteran American crooner and his band.
Times, Sunday Times
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Along with Sinatra, an entire generation of tuxedo-clad, slow-moving Italian American crooners followed Crosby to stardom.
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A natural, casual, everyday type of voice worked best with radio mikes, and that is exactly what the crooners supplied.
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It's true that I'm not known as a crooner or balladeer," says Elling.
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Amid a sea of melismatic showoffs and crass belters, he stood out as an old-fashioned crooner in the thrall of a faraway vision.
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All three of these croaky crooners take two turns in the lead vocalist's rocking chair.
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Stevie Wonder, whom the label discovered when he was 11; Marvin Gaye, who wanted so much to be a jazz crooner before he came into his own in the late 60's; and, above all, Diana Ross, whom the label put its stake in early on, and who was told so many times that she was a star that she drove off one of the Supremes before quitting to launch a solo career.
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The new addition will certainly give the old crooner something to sing about.
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THE PLATTERS and a few other bands that were still doing the "crooner" - type ballads.
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Trying And he said he can't wait to get stuck in to working with the legendary crooner.
The Sun
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In a stage career that began at the tender age of 9, the multilingual crooner has duetted with everyone from today's rap artists to Frank Sinatra and, of course, Johnny Hallyday.
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Contenders, crooners and pretenders - they're all here.
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But supporters of crooner Michel Martelly , 49, claimed the singer had outpolled Mr. C é lestin for second place and took to the streets in protest.
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Before I get into anything approaching the news of the day, it's sad to report that crooner Al Martino, a k a Johnny Fontane, has died at the age of 82.
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He certainly looks more like a rocker than a crooner.
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It's totally different for us to sound like crooners.
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Scandal ensued when Todd's best friend, American crooner Eddie Fisher, then married his widow.
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The crooner, known for his deep, smooth voice, has suffered years of high blood pressure and is now hoping to get a kidney transplant.
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Don't get me wrong: He makes perfect sense as a guitar-strumming crooner, but those performances are always so paint-by-numbers that I inevitably want to reach for the fast-forward button.
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It emerged as an alternative to the sentimental pop songs of the early twentieth century and the polished crooners who sang them.
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With the invention of the microphone came the crooners but people still sung, they sung in the church, they sung in the army.
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Until November last year, the Taiwanese folk - pop crooner had hidden behind a cute caricature.
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He utters the 1960s Rat Pack phrase "ring-a-ding" a lot, while crooner Matt Dusk sings Vegas tunes on the soundtrack.
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Look beyond the crooner's perma-grin, the twinkle in the eye, the ever-bouncing quiff and there, on his cheeks and chin, was the unmistakable sheen of foundation.
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The crooner was a hit with fellow salon-goers at the Melville salon in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center when he sat down for a cut and began belting out tunes.
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He has few kind words for the revisionists—including the crooner's oldest son—who portrayed his father as distant and cold.
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New to Volume 3 are duets, allowing two crooners the option to sing along at the same time.
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He is a heavyset man with a crooner's manner and soft voice.
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He commands the stage like a modern-day crooner, except that he fronts a rock band instead of an orchestra, and wears "guyliner" and feather epaulettes on his blazer.
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Strange but true, the squeaky clean crooner's country-fried approach to Wayne as he lusts after Emily adds a little spice to an otherwise bland dish.
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The albums gave the glammy '70s sex symbol a second career as a crooner in a suit.
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Maybe shrieking and yelping in the background while a bunch of hollow-eyed Irish crooners half-heartedly mumble a chicken-in-a-basket classic is just what Jackson needs to get his career back on track.
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This old-school collection of songs should win over new fans and further Andy's status as a smooth crooner of love tunes.
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He pressed the microphone to his lips like a crooner.
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‘Feelings,’ the sappy ballad sung by countless crooners, is rejuvenated in the hands of this master stylist.
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A shvartze crooner was banging his girlfriend-clip him for ten grand.
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A cowboy crooner sings softly on one side of the room.
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Last month, the crooner is pled guilty to punching, hitting and choking Rihanna in his rented Lamborghini car earlier this year.
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For modern acoustic guitar-wielding crooners, monotony lurks quickly between hushed major-chord strums.
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Well, Edgar is sitting in the aisle seat and he seems to be doing just fine, smiling at the rude banter that rolls nonstop from crooner to jokesmith to saloonkeeper and back.
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I'll grant that everyone, even libidinous crooners, have bad days.
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The ad, for John Smith's bitter, sees Kay return to his table with a tray of drinks in a packed nightclub as the crooner performs his smash hit Release Me.
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Crooners, balladeers, torch singers - they are all here on this triple CD.
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On which occasion the gravel-voiced crooner revealed that his entire attic was dedicated to his life-long hobby, model railways.
Times, Sunday Times
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The singer, Al Martino, who played crooner Johnny Fontane in The Godfather, was my neighbor, which validated the youthful delusions of my crowd that we were a part of something, well, kind of badass.
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The film-star or the crooner is not grudged the income that is grudged to the oil magnate, because the people appreciate the entertainer's accomplishment and not the entrepreneur's, and because the former's personality is liked and the latter's is not.
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To remedy that, and give one last nod to summer, here's one of Gershwin's most famous songs, recorded by crooners and rockers, rappers and balladeers: Summertime.
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He is billed for a performance at Club Amaruzu in Queens, New York on October 24 alongside veteran reggae crooner Coco Tea and dancehall star Capleton.
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Nudity and ribaldry have been a staple of Las Vegas entertainment since Siegel's day, the bosomy chorus girls parading behind the comics and crooners.
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In these pieces, written in large part by Kurtzman with Jaffee and Roth usually writing their own pieces, it's not enough that you remember singer Perry Como -- you have to remember when he was young and known as a slouchy mumbler, an affront to the more polished type of crooner like Bing Crosby.
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A face-lift crooner in white, a cruise-liner cabaret star, he was appearing one night only with Rita Farina and her brother Fabrice.
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The “My Heart Will Go On” crooner is expecting twins later this year.
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NAT King Cole was a prodigious artist with parallel careers: as a great jazz pianist who cut some beautiful sides with heavyweights such as Lester Young, and as a crooner with a voice like soft petals.
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The 30-year old crooner was the oldest contestant in the sixth and last heat of the competition.
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You get it all here - Iggy the crooner, Iggy the growler, Iggy the philosopher and Iggy the rager, raging against the dying of the night where the street fight that is rock mocks the slippery stranglehold of the recording industry.
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There were singing people on the bus, crooners in backyards and I even hummed a note or two.
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Curly-haired crooner Harry can be seen bundled up in a black jacket and a pair of ski goggles as he holds his skis over his shoulder.
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And as for breakfast time, to expect a man to eat his breakfast to the sound of a crooner is like hitting him below the belt when his vitality is low.
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Mr. Andrews has succeeded in casting singers who are particularly skilled actors, especially Mr. Randle, whose baritonal tenor is almost crooner-like, and Pamela Helen Stephen as Penelope, Diana Montagu as his old nurse and Ruby Hughes as Minerva.
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The two loves of the club crooner's life were always his wife - and song.
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He blithely absolves this libel as an example of "antonomasia" ( "the use of a proper name to express a general idea," OED), saying rather too airily that in this instance he meant a "Pat Boone-type" to imply any crooner of the well-scrubbed variety.
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Yet, in the case of both the bluesman and the crooner, there is, at least ostensibly, a reason for the sorrow.
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How did the boy-bandiest of beat-boxing falsetto crooners go from a brillo-headed Conan O'Brien punch line to the international face of posh perfumery Givenchy, who yesterday proclaimed Justin "No Strings Attached" Timberlake a "world-record trendsetter who redefines modern elegance," you ask?
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Fanté would have perhaps been more successful simply covering the classics outright, like fellow nouveau soul crooner Joss Stone.
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Isaac Hayes, the baldheaded, baritone-voiced soul crooner who laid the groundwork for disco and whose “Theme From Shaft” won both Academy and Grammy awards, died Sunday afternoon after he collapsed near a treadmill, authorities said.
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The curly-haired crooner made girls scream, winning hearts across the globe.
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Harry Connick Jr., the so-called crooner and actor, performed a martini-and-Prozac version of "And I love her.
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The former footballer, former manager, sometime TV pundit, and wannabe crooner also ran a greengrocer in Dagenham.
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Taylor was famously dumped by boy bander Joe Jonas — by phone, no less — after the crooner fell for actres Camilla Belle.
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But the carefully staged set-piece interview in the Times in which he came out had the feel of an ageing crooner desperate to ingratiate himself with the younger generation by bringing out a rap record.
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You get it all here - Iggy the crooner, Iggy the growler, Iggy the philosopher and Iggy the rager, raging against the dying of the night where the street fight that is rock mocks the slippery stranglehold of the recording industry.
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What I really loved about that time was the vocalists, the crooners.
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Showertime crooners and karaoke divas are being offered the chance to warble their way into posterity at a new recording studio in Shipston.
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Otherwise, she might give the veteran crooner a heart attack.
The Sun
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The fuzz-faced crooner looks like he hasn't aged in the last 15 years.
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Dance bands, jazz and crooners of indeterminate age gave way to the new imported sound of the States - rock'n'roll.
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There was no room for the ambrosial tenderness of crooners and songsmiths that night.
