"Petland Discounts," a nondescript chorus crooned over joyous synthesizer music.
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"Turn on any channel — well, except the news," crooned Colbert.
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"But she caught me on the counter (wasn't me)," Corden crooned.
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Robot dog, John crooned to himself, kicking dirt over the shit.
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"Ain't no woman gonna change the way I think," he crooned.
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"How do you handle a hungry man?" crooned an offscreen voice.
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"Good vibrations!" crooned Otero as he grabbed a pair of tongs.
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"When I fired that sleazebag [Comey], all hell broke out," Trump crooned.
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" Later, on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles float, Jacob Whitesides crooned "Lovesick.
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"Facts are lame," Spencer crooned at Auburn University in Alabama in April.
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"The reckless government went to wake up the child," crooned one singer.
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"No, you take it, please," I countered, while Sean Paul crooned on stage.
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"It's so smooth now," my roommate crooned over her own hair after use.
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Let's do this dirty laundry, as Kelly Rowland, former Destiny's Child, once crooned.
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At the B.B. King Museum on Friday, a youth choir crooned Marvin Gaye.
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"How adorable!" crooned the woman in line behind us at the department store.
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After another encounter, they at last move as one — s'wonderful, as Astaire crooned.
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" Cyrus, 24, shed tears as the little girl crooned and Hemsworth, 26, said "Wow!
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Jones, 26, crooned a capella covers of popular songs and performed on tour nationwide.
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As the children's choir crooned over the hum of a Hammond organ, the Rev.
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"Liiiiie to me," she crooned, with a winking heart and some true, precocious wisdom.
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While in high school, he crooned "Happy Birthday" delivering singing telegrams for Western Union.
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"This is Times Square 42nd street, where New Yorkers go to relax," it crooned.
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" She leaned in close to her cat and crooned, "It's up to you-oo!
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While he crooned, quite movingly, he floated toward three female psychiatrists sitting with Dr. Kuhns.
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The lyrics of Bowie's biggest hits reverberated through the streets as they crooned in unison.
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"Everyone we know is very white / we don't have one black friend," he crooned soulfully.
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"It's simple here," Ms. Martinelli explained, as choruses of birds crooned from the surrounding trees.
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He crooned the lyrics to "Plug Walk" by the hip-hop artist Rich the Kid.
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Finally, he crooned a short tune a cappella, honoring a longtime tradition of the piano bar.
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His transatlantic accent could cut glass; he crooned film noir lines like a young William Holden.
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"We made our choice," Lionel Richie crooned while dancing through the streets, flanked by young people.
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Indeed, "Teenage Kicks" was a work of piercing heartache, crooned in singer Feargal Sharkey's quivering tenor.
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"I'm better sleeping on my own," crooned Justin Bieber in "Love Yourself" and he means it.
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"You say …," he crooned — the opening words of "You'll Be Back," sung by King George III.
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When Flo Rida crooned about baggy sweatpants and Reeboks with the straps, she gyrated to the beat.
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"The Greatest Love of All" — 1986 Houston crooned this George Benson track at her first Grammy Awards.
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Summer cuddled up against Aguilera on a set of steps as the famous mom crooned her hit.
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Peek into ballroom meeting rooms and you'll see dazzling chandeliers, the same exact ones Frank crooned underneath.
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Deborah Cox crooned "I Will Always Love You" as images of the 17 victims flashed behind her.
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Tambourine and guitar riffs rang out crisply as Mr. Gaye crooned about the anguish of his betrayal.
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"Black ponytail curled in a bun, wrapped around all my loving thoughts of you," the Wangs crooned.
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On a recent Saturday, the jammed dance floor crooned to records from Elvis Presley and Chubby Checker.
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And Cheikh Lo from Senegal, who crooned smoothly while propelling his band with complex, skittering African funk drumbeats.
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Accompanied in jazzy fashion by piano and drums and partially crooned by Ms. Scheen, it was utterly defanged.
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As they crooned about love, a woman in strategically sheer leggings squeezed a cello with her gym-honed legs.
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"Just squeeze me, but please don't tease me," she crooned over the trio, belting the 1941 Duke Ellington classic.
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Halfway in, the almost poppy, heavy-strummed "Emergency Blimp" gives way to "Czech One," a mournful, crooned half-ballad.
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Cheesy synths, honeyed strings, vocals that wailed or ululated more than shouted or crooned—it was all too much.
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Mark Zuckerberg attended; Bruno Mars crooned next to a waterfall that reportedly captivated past guests like Leonardo da Vinci.
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I drank bourbon cocktails and asked bartender Kyle Gadgis about hangovers while Dolly Parton crooned from a record player.
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Willie Nelson crooned "Love Is Here To Stay" as the pair danced for the first time as a married couple.
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" In his tune, Simpson crooned about Cyrus while he strummed his acoustic guitar, singing that she's got "a golden thing.
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" In the track, Simpson crooned about Cyrus while he strummed his acoustic guitar, singing that she's got "a golden thing.
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Idina Menzel and Kristen Bell sang alongside "Frozen" co-stars Josh Gad and Jonathan Groff, who crooned into a stuffed reindeer.
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As Bing Crosby crooned in the opening refrain of a song he recorded in 1968, "What's more American than Corn Flakes?"
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"Every night, I turn the TV on and cry," they crooned, channeling a '90s R&B act like Boyz II Men.
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"The 101 freeway east of Downtown will take a break for 40 hours of R&R, and R&B," Garcetti crooned.
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" As music hour at Jungle Friends wound down on Wednesday, The Youngbloods crooned, "Come on people now, smile on your brother.
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In fact, for me, and countless others if I need the defense of numbers, Walker's crooned drama was Goth finishing school.
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" In his tune, Simpson, 22, crooned about Cyrus while he strummed his acoustic guitar, singing that she's got "a golden thing.
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I kissed my co-stars and crooned along to Sara Bareilles and played Never Have I Ever around a fire pit.
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We believe it was Big Daddy Kane and Ice-T who once infamously crooned, "giftin' ain't easy," and we couldn't agree more.
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The late-night host crooned an original tune about how he used to dream of being an actor in famous Broadway musicals.
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Mr. Duterte crooned Bette Midler's "Wind Beneath My Wings," while Mr. Razak sang "The Young Ones" by Cliff Richard and the Shadows.
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Saturday night ended with a quintessential camp activity: Roasting s'mores over a bonfire while another performer crooned rock classics on his acoustic guitar.
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With every musician on the stage similarly outfitted, Mars crooned Prince's 1984 hit "Let's Go Crazy" after the song's memorable spoken introduction played.
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Jamiroquai crooned from the speakers outside, claiming there was nothing left for him to do but dance, but no one was dancing — yet.
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In 1975 some banned Loretta Lynn, who had crooned about her hardscrabble life as a coalminer's daughter, because of her song "The Pill".
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Unlike the pre-Code goddesses, vamps, and bad girls, who crooned or spoke in snarls and wisecracks, the post-Code women could talk.
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During their "Single Ladies" performance, Jenner even pointed and wagged her index finger in the air as she crooned along to Bey's hit song.
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But what really left an impression on me was his uncanny falsetto, which seemed to lift up the audience with every word he crooned.
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As her band played folk-pop tinged with some hip-hop brittleness, Ms. Eilish strolled, slouched and crooned with precisely gauged insolence and nonchalance.
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On Sunday, Duterte crooned hit Filipino love song "Ikaw" (You) at a gala dinner in Manila, saying it was on "the orders" of Trump.
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And Joe Casey's lyrics — cryptic or blunt, spoken or crooned or snarled — confront all the dire contradictions of the present moment. Domino. Sept. 20103.
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The creamy ballad "Drive," crooned by Orr, hides sinister feelings inside a romantic facade: "Who's going to plug their ears when you scream?" indeed.
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"I don't need no money, fortune or fame," he was said to have crooned as he rebuffed the investor Warren E. Buffett one night.
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Not to say that John sounded that bad here ... he still crooned better than any Joe even with a bit of booze in his system.
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Junta leader Prayuth Chan-ocha crooned to voters at a rally in Bangkok where he made his final pitch for staying on as prime minister.
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Adele, I am sure, has crooned for 10,000 hours (undoubtedly why she has so many throat problems), and, although she's good, she's not a genius.
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The singer crooned her new song "Just Like Fire" live from outside the theater, just one night after premiering the song at the Billboard Music Awards.
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Unless you have that perfect peach candle Emma Stone crooned about on SNL, finding the right Secret Santa gift is, frankly, a pain in the ass.
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Later, Billie Holiday crooned the protest song "Strange Fruit," against the wishes of one of the theater's owners, and discovered in her audience a safe space.
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Lewis clowned while Martin crooned, and audiences lapped it up, first in nightclubs, then in movies and on TV. Almost immediately they became a national phenomenon.
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He growled, he crooned, he stood up and shook his hips; the show positioned him as a rebel and, at the end, a white-clad redeemer.
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Mr. Buljan further engages us with original songs by the composer Mitja Vrhovnik-Smrekar, crooned by Cynthia Micas accompanied by her fellow actors on various instruments.
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Linda Ronstadt grew up in Tucson -- some 40 miles from the Mexico border -- singing along with her dad as he crooned mariachi songs after family dinners.
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Justin Timberlake kicked off the festivities, leading a parade of dancers toward the stage as he crooned his Oscar-nominated hit "Can't Stop the Feeling!" from Trolls.
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On Sunday, Duterte crooned hit Filipino love song "Ikaw" (You) at a gala dinner for summit leaders in Manila, saying it was on "the orders" of Trump.
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She sang old standards like "Side by Side," which her father had crooned to her and her sister when they were growing up in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
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As if that weren't enough, before the day of the wedding, Manganiello crooned a rendition of Guns N' Roses' "Sweet Child O' Mine" to his future wife.
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There were other tacky aspects of the show: Merv Griffin crooned "I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts," and Corey Feldman did a Michael Jackson-style dance.
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Yes, we want natural engagement with its sense, and no, we don't need to have it crooned at us as if it were written for lounge lizards.
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I can't explain the first song I crooned to my sleeping granddaughter, just hours old and bundled like a burrito in a hospital blanket and striped cap.
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Ramon Revilla, a former action-movie star and ex-senator, grabbed a microphone and crooned a duet with his wife, the mayor of a town near Manila.
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Case in point ... Dwayne Johnson's video from Sunday -- he and Danny elaborately ducked in on someone's wedding down in Cabo San Lucas and crooned to the crowd.
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In 1987, when Mr Mugabe tried to create a de facto one-party state, Western diplomats crooned that a firm hand was probably what the country needed.
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She charged into action with her medical kitand shears, swiveling her head back and forth as she alternately crooned to the donkey and barked commands back at me.
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The pivotal play, though, arrived long before the game had devolved into a romp, and before nearly 234,217 fans chanted Brady's name and crooned along to Bon Jovi.
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A collaboration between J Balvin, a Colombian reggaeton star (pictured), and Willy William, a French producer, the latest product of this summer's Latin craze is crooned almost entirely in Spanish.
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The couple didn't let the swarms of fans armed with cameras stop them from taking advantage of a romantic moment: slow-dancing together while Ed Sheeran crooned his songs onstage.
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My headache was on full blast and my armpits were drenched by my own reek as a nearby baby crooned along to Ariana Grande's "Dangerous Woman" playing through iPad speakers.
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"She's a good girl, loves her mama," I crooned, looking over to my right at Jamie, sensing him also sensing the crowd's ripples of delight at our fresh song choice.
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" Then, playing off of the opening number's concluding Randy Travis song, Underwood and Paisley crooned, "This election is taking forever and ever, forever and ever, forever and ever, make it end.
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"Sing your life, any fool can think of words that rhyme," he crooned, injecting feelings of optimistic existentialism into his signature retro style as the audience noise finally began to lull.
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"I'm gonna take my horse to the Old Town Road -- I'm gonna ride till I can't no more," Cyrus crooned in the song widely shared by excited fans of both singers.
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As The King crooned to us from the past, his mouth sounding more full of boiled eggs than ever, the world grew more confident that the storm could and would be weathered.
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"Just pretend she is a biiiiig bus," she crooned in Franglais, assuming my anxiety derived from a fear of flying rather than from my actual fear: people seeing me cry in public.
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Carter ran openly as a socialist—he and his supporters crooned the union anthem "Solidarity Forever" after their victory—and he won with almost no institutional support from the state Democratic Party.
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He did receive a lifetime achievement award in 20043, and crooned a memorable duet with Lancaster at the 1958 Academy Awards, insisting how happy they were not to be among the nominees.
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They ate at a table on the deck, paper napkins slung over their thighs, slurping strands of pasta as the sun slid from the sky and Jimmy Buffett crooned from a speaker.
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The creepiness of Adora's condition included the complicity of her husband (Henry Czerny), allowing her to poison Camille while trying to keep authorities at bay, as Sinatra tunes crooned in the background.
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In The Loser, or "looooser" as Gilfry crooned, the suspension of the singer above the theater, with accompanying ensemble of Bang on a Can out of sight, reflected the solitude of the artist.
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Because like then, for looking the way I do, I can still be murdered by a white person and have my death go unaccounted for—over 50 years after he crooned that wish.
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There's currently about 1,000 names on the "To Record" list, though, so you'll have to wait at least four months to hear your name cheerfully crooned with the sound of a howling dog.
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During the next phase of the project, sensors will transmit data about the time and day that, say, a dog barked or a street performer crooned, and an estimate for the sound level.
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As a country music duo crooned in an auditorium still filling with adoring supporters of Mr. Trump, the president fumed backstage and huddled with his staff for a hasty redrafting of the speech.
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As if all that wasn't class enough, Seth also had a full orchestra performing live throughout the night -- and, of course, the guy got up there himself and crooned a handful of songs.
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" Instead of singing "Havana, ohh na-na," the duo crooned "Mall Santa, ho ho ho/His breath is reeking like Jack Daniels ho ho ho/Holding a beer and a Mylanta, ho ho ho.
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His fingers rolled across the keys as revellers encircling him crooned the polytheist paean "We Dance," from the Broadway show "Once on This Island," and empty bottles of Stella Artois accumulated under the stairs.
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On others, the brightness of his voice fades, and those are the nights when — unlike Monday, when he crooned, "When the Blues go marching in," in front of Section 123 — he can't sing anymore.
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" 'Tis sweet to be remembered, on a bright or a gloomy day / 'Tis sweet to be remembered, by a dear one far away," he crooned in a limpid tenor in the song's waltzing chorus.
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At final campaign events on Friday, junta leader Prayuth crooned a ballad at a rally of the military proxy Palang Pracharat Party's in Bangkok to make his final pitch for staying on as prime minister.
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She started whining when she saw it, prancing closer, and he crooned her name, Lilliyana, though that didn't mean anything to her, it was just a name he had invented, it suited her, he thought.
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The weather and its many faces have served as an inspiration for many musicians, who have crooned about the London fog, the Sun coming out, stormy weather and the clothes you wear for a season.
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It also renovated a large stadium in Pyongyang with volleyball, table tennis and basketball courts (the American basketball player Dennis Rodman famously crooned "Happy Birthday" to Mr. Kim in that stadium during a 2014 visit).
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"I have a love for '40s vintage glamour," said Ms. Erivo during the quiet frenzy happening around her, while Caleb, her Maltipoo, lounged on the brown leather chaise and Drake's voice crooned in the background.
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From a sound system, the Temptations crooned along, with "The Way You Do the Things You Do." More surgery is being performed with the patient awake and looking on, for both financial and medical reasons.
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GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - With a voice known to millions of Indian movie goers, Zubeen Garg crooned one of his old songs with patriotic fervor, but he is protesting against the government, not singing its praises.
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George W. Bush and Junichiro Koizumi also bonded during Koizumi's 2001-2006 term as Japanese premier, playing ball, eating BBQ at Bush's Texas ranch, and visiting Elvis Presley's Graceland mansion, where Koizumi crooned Elvis tunes.
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"I thank you so much and the only thing I can say now, 'It's been a long day without you, my friend, and I'll tell you all about it when I see you again,' " he crooned.
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Country went British when ACM co-hosts Dierks Bentley and Luke Bryan visited The Late Late Show with James Corden, Thursday night, and crooned a country song sure to (not!) be a hit in the U.
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That song, "Let It Go," has been much-crooned by children and much-covered by grown-ups, while "Frozen" merchandise (including several million princess costumes) have been a huge revenue generator since the film was released.
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This mystery is present too in the song's title, its chorus ("Avalon," simply crooned), and the cover art to the album, which shows a woman in armor, a falcon on her helmet, sailing toward an isle.
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His single "Dun Talkin" introduced him to listeners in 2016, where he crooned about street beef over a languid dancehall beat before handing the mic over to north London rapper Abra Cadabra for a feature verse.
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Only in the last six years have younger stars slowly begun to do so, including Frank Ocean, Olly Alexander and Mary Lambert, who crooned the chorus of Macklemore and Ryan Lewis's Grammy-nominated "Same Love" in 2012.
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In his originals, Mr. Klein aims for melodies and rhythms that feel utterly clear — like something Gardel might have crooned — but that also tangle, weave and interfere with one another, like a fugue or a hocketing chorus.
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Najib, in a viral video last month, crooned a Malay-language version of the 1970s hit 'Kiss and Say Goodbye', surrounded by a chorus of somber young singers, criticizing Mahathir's coalition for failing to live up to election promises.
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Najib, in a viral video last month, crooned a Malay-language version of the 1970s hit 'Kiss and Say Goodbye,' surrounded by a chorus of sombre young singers, criticising Mahathir's coalition for failing to live up to election promises.
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Beginning with a No. 22017 recording of "Because of You" in 1951, Mr. Bennett crooned through a decade of hits with sometimes marginal material, culminating in the international best seller "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" in 1962.
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Suzy brought down the lights in her room, pulled her hoodie over her head, and crooned Jewel's "You Were Meant For Me," looking into her laptop camera with the same sensual innocence Jewel herself delivers in her music videos.
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At Refinery29's NewFronts presentation this week, R&B singing sister duo Chloe x Halle crooned the lyrics, "I'm not gonna dumb down my mind for you," in front of a swaying crowd of (mostly!) women at New York's Terminal 5.
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The most unexpected of all of these—if, I suppose, anything that Ty Dolla $ign does with his music can really be considered a shock at this point—was "Stealing," a nicotine-addled lament, crooned expertly above a simple picked guitar.
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During this period, St. Germain-des-Prés was in the midst of a jazz craze, and the Lutetia hosted frequent jazz performances in its bar — Josephine Baker crooned for patrons as did the French singers Boris Vian and Juliette Greco.
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There's that zany, slightly frat-boy sense of humor — the latest ad features a few dozen people shaving, tweezing, clipping, trimming, waxing, bathing, powdering, spritzing, gelling, styling and moisturizing to the song "I've Gotta Be Me" as crooned by Steve Lawrence.
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Their demand got more specific as the singers turned their attention to Donald Trump Jr. "I don't need a full impeachment / But we just need a little fun / Please just tell us we aren't crazy / At least indict his oldest son," they crooned.
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THE ABSOLUTE HIGHLIGHT of last night's CCTV Spring Festival Gala was undoubtedly the dance performance by a troupe of 540 robots against the stunning backdrop of Guangzhou's city skyline as singer Sun Nan crooned about China catapulting itself to the peak of the world.
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"Salvatore," who could be based on her real-life Italian boyfriend for all I know, is auto-crooned so close to the edge of parody I wish she'd figured out how to sneak in the moon hitting her eye like a big pizza pie.
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Nat King Cole got pretty close to putting the feelings of warmth, adoration and excitement into song when he crooned "L-O-V-E," making it the perfect choice for these celebrity rescue pet owners looking for a way to express their devotion on Valentine's Day.
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A massive 19th century neo-classical theater called Teatro Marti played host to a collaboration between Iranian-Cuban electronica group Ariwo and local drum legend Mililian Galis, as well as a mariachi-style singer who crooned love songs while Cuban teens screamed like he was Justin Bieber.
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By the end of this smart, shameless and extravagantly entertaining production, adapted from Baz Luhrmann's 2001 movie, you'll think you've heard fragments of every Top 40 song of lust and longing that has been whispered, screamed or crooned into your ear during the past several decades.
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Barely out of his teens, he shot to fame shortly after World War II with a nightclub act in which the rakish, imperturbable Dean Martin crooned and the skinny, hyperactive Mr. Lewis capered around the stage, a dangerously volatile id to Mr. Martin's supremely relaxed ego.
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The audience crooned along in loud unison as Chris Martin of Coldplay sang a cover of "Don't Look Back in Anger" by the Manchester band Oasis, and the fans reacted with large cheers when Oasis' singer, Liam Gallagher, later took the stage as an unannounced performer.
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While a man wearing a neoprene jumpsuit and knee-high boots crooned in a nearby room, the women crawled under a plastic tarp and began to grapple, a 10-minute piece of performance art that ended with them covered in handprints of black ink as an appreciative audience applauded.
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Los Angeles, a seemingly even more unlikely candidate to bring awe to infrastructure, is nevertheless doing it, with a dazzlingly ambitious transportation plan (the city's mayor, Eric Garcetti, has even publicly crooned for road improvements), and also by rediscovering the long-neglected (and abused, frankly) river it was built around.
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If you want to understand the murky lines between LA worlds in 2016, consider that that the newest Aftermath artist came out to a Jonwayne song ("Green Light") whose hook he crooned, backed by psychedelic visuals (courtesy of the great Dewey Saunders) that would shame Tame Impala or Panda Bear.
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Walking with my back to the stage, past thousands of smiling faces, while Kevin Parker crooned the lines "try to be sane / try to pretend that none of it happened" was an incredibly intense emotional experience—probably the most connected I've felt to a piece of music in my life.
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We wandered past an English pub called the Long Hop, where an Irishman named Paddy Sherlock and his band of Frenchmen — he introduced them all — played sexy jazz standards and crooned at the women in the crowd while patrons drank Heineken, and we loved it so much that we joined them.
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That kind of power carries through the entirety of Blue, a tapestry of evocative, poetically specific images, alternately rapped and crooned by a 21-year-old who has known too much pain (and, probably, too many cigarettes) than anyone his age should, with a voice and a gift for songwriting that show it.
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Paired with McClellan's distinctive voice (each syllable has a way of catching in her throat, as if crooned through the reed of a woodwind instrument), it has this way of illustrating the futility of such unrepentant yearning, as if to say, it's kinda funny I ever thought like this to begin with.
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With his chunky-cheeked, boyish grin and dark, curly hair swept back from a widow's peak, he crooned pop favorites for 35 million people from 1951 to 1953 on CBS's "Arthur Godfrey Time," a weekday morning television and radio show, and for "Arthur Godfrey and His Friends," a Wednesday night variety program.
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A young Bolivian man, Williams Erick Ortiz, crooned Spanish-language songs; Coldplay covers were the preferred choice of another performer, Minkyu Jo. Over toward the north end of Grafton Street (the most popular area to find musicians), I caught a talented teenager who goes by Buzz Apollo playing some angsty rock numbers.
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While for some of us, the man who crooned, "Do you really want to hurt me?" from beneath half-closed, heavily-shadowed eyelids never went away, he's now reaching a whole new generation thanks to a roll on The New Celebrity Apprentice and his handful of cheeky one-liners during his cameos on the new season of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
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It was better than in 26, when they clinched despite being beaten on Mark Teixeira's walk-off home run, but it was nevertheless a businesslike celebration: players and coaches congregating near the mound and then turning to their fans behind the third-base dugout, who cheered them as Frank Sinatra crooned over the stadium speakers about those little town blues.
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Last night gave us numerous lasting images to remember: Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper intimately crooned "Shallow;" Awkwafina and John Mulaney leaned on their self-effacing senses of humor, giving us a glimpse into what they'd look like in a buddy comedy; Spike Lee koala-hugged Samuel L. Jackson when accepting his Best Adapted Screenplay award for BlacKkKlansman—a moment so pure because of its completely unrestrained joy between two close friends.
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"I been a workin' man dang near all my life / I'll be working long as my two hands are fit to use / I'll drink my beer in a tavern, sing a little bit of these working man blues," he crooned back in '69, pouring one out for the American blue collar workers who bought his records and packed his shows—the ones who went to work in the factories, the ones who went to Vietnam, and the ones who stayed behind.
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In addition to the songs by Alan Menken and the late Howard Ashman, which were surgically implanted into the ears of children and their parents more than a quarter of a century ago, and which retain an indisputable charm, we are granted a smattering of mini-songs by Menken and Tim Rice, which seem to start awkwardly or to be sliced off in their prime: one to accompany a dance, for example, and another to be crooned by Maurice at his workbench.
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