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But typical crooners can be bought for a few dollars.

Then, Americana crooners Midland stop by for a career-spanning interview.

And no wonder: he's become one of our top bedroom crooners.

The hip-hop era hasn't been kind to R&B crooners like Usher.

On less boisterous evenings, expect loungy music from Billie Holiday and other crooners.

The theme is crooners: Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Tony Bennett and Perry Como 23.

Fluent rapper, textured crooner, sings easier than most fluent rappers, hooks easier than most textured crooners.

One Direction's 2015 "Drag Me Down" video had the four British crooners lip-syncing in astronaut apparel.

Plus, soulful crooners Ryan Adams and John Mayer will be back in our lives with fresh heartbreakers.

With a flamboyantly flexible voice and a stagy demeanor, Monheit is one of jazz's most popular crooners.

That brought endless suggestions from Russia to either boycott the contest or send the most nationalistic crooners possible.

Even though the fellow English crooners had a lot in common, David Bowie managed to leave Sting in awe.

"So, I say never say never," Fatone said about the possibility of the '00s crooners getting back together someday.

Early on he became enamored of the silky vocal style of crooners like Nat King Cole and Johnny Mathis.

Even the most diehard Backstreet Boys fan would agree that the "It's Gonna Be Me" crooners were pop music icons.

Peter Robinson takes his seat at the piano and crooners join in on classics by Cole Porter and George Gershwin.

With his earnest and elastic baritone, Mr. Elling is among the most highly regarded jazz crooners of the past quarter century.

I received architectural and food tips as well as many suggestions for which Québécois crooners I should feature on my playlist.

She drew inspiration from crooners like Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald, but her vocals were a touch less stagy, more direct.

Six seasons, two networks and one leading lady's sudden death later, the complicated crooners of CMT's Nashville took their final curtain call.

The singer is based on a mixture of real-life crooners ranging from Johnny Mathis to Nat "King" Cole to Harry Belafonte.

The classic, with Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye and Rosemary Clooney as crooners in a Vermont inn, set to Irving Berlin's musical gold.

The country crooners have remained close friends over the years, even though they sometimes go long stretches of time without seeing one another.

Let's just say that Fetty Wap and PnB Rock's designation as legendary crooners (which is how I just designated them) is well earned.

From chorus buddies to big-time country crooners, Lauren Alaina and Kane Brown's friendship has evolved – and led to a new hit single.

Saudi Arabia is putting the finishing touches on a consulate in Basra's Sheraton hotel, where Iraqi crooners sing love songs and waiters dance.

Its controlled phrasing was seen as "a kick up the backside" to the era of romantic crooners, according to Ruy Castro, bossa nova's chronicler.

Back then, I had no prospects beyond imaginary trysts with boy-band crooners and scrawny actors with sun-kissed mushroom cuts and cherry lips.

He even sang a Christmas song, "The Little Drummer Boy," with the most mainstream of American crooners, Bing Crosby, on a 22000 TV special.

Awful Records has been praised for its unfiltered brand of DIY rap, but the collective has quietly amassed a solid lineup of crooners as well.

Governments began to issue warnings against travel to the glittering town by the bay that once attracted crooners like Frank Sinatra and scores of American honeymooners.

Young males in this family of feathered crooners learn the song of their father, perfect it and perform it as adults to attract a lifelong mate.

He composed many of the core pieces in the choro repertory, including "Carinhoso," which was later outfitted with lyrics and performed by popular crooners like Orlando Silva.

In addition to Rose's representation of Nashville, Cyrus has bluesy crooners, rockers, indie singers, pop stars in the making, and even folk singer Shilo Gold, a cantor's daughter.

From famous crooners that share his moniker to the tunes that sing out "Louis!" on repeat, check out five of our favorite songs for the newborn prince. 1.

On Tuesday, Forbes released the 2017 list of the World's Highest-Paid Country Music Stars, with the top 10 crooners earning a total of $366 million this year.

As he borrowed, so he was borrowed from; it didn't matter to him, even when white crooners in those segregated times covered his songs and sold more of them.

Her inspirations, she said, were the crooners of the pre-rock era, and Dylan, who could string lyrics together without the promise, or the threat, of an impending tune.

Benefiting from the cross-pollination of regions and genres, these collaborations can introduce the featured artists to new audiences, with rappers and crooners crossing over among dance-pop aficionados.

Following up from their 2016 album Nothing Shines Like Neon, the "Neon Blues" crooners will head back to the studio this fall to record new music alongside producer Dave Cobb.

The retro-furnished Mollie Fontaine Lounge occupies one of the original mansions on Millionaire's Row downtown, now known as Victorian Village, with music ranging from jazz crooners to D.J.-spun house.

In his book How Music Works, Talking Heads frontman David Byrne breaks down how the invention of the microphone changed recorded music and allowed for the rise of a generation of crooners.

Nu-metal has-beens, country crooners, 90s nostalgia acts, corpsepainted black metallers melting in the sun—there really is something for everyone in the floating concert market, even the world's biggest Train fan.

"I want you guys to go out there and shock the hell out of them," host Ludacris tells the "Kissing Strangers" crooners, who recently headlined Base*FEST at Florida's Naval Air Station Pensacola.

Where earlier sambas skewed toward the booming, theatrical voices of the past, "Chega de Saudade" was packed with textural syllables and nearly impossible to sing in the style of Brazil's more traditional crooners.

Wrote the King in a post introducing it: It leans heavily toward classic music from the 1940s to the 1970s; classic crooners and divas, 'beautiful music' orchestras, 'Now Sound' vocal groups and combos.

Artists across the board—from riot grrrl to R&B—have boldly buried their faces where chaste crooners of previous decades had feared to go, thus establishing a rich lineage of pussy power anthems.

The vertical structure to the right of the stage was awe-inspiring too, playing host all to the crooners and minor Brazilian celebrities visibly chuffed as mince any of this was happening at all.

Mr. Kim and Ms. Ri, a former singer, were among hundreds of North Koreans who filled the 1,500-seat theater to watch the South Korean singers, including older crooners, gelled rockers and K-pop starlets.

The holiday crooners — including young Amari, who has battled brain and spinal tumors since 3 months old — stopped by Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, and paid a visit to the hospital's Seacrest Studios.

Before "Jimbo," tennis stars had been mild-mannered crooners such as Rod Laver, Ken Rosewall, John Newcombe and Stan Smith, who with their wood rackets and white clothes personified the sport's longstanding culture of civility.

The state was the birthplace of a few well-known crooners of yore like Lawrence Welk and Peggy Lee, who they both left for Hollywood to find their big breaks, and blues guitar virtuoso Johnny Lang.

Finding new vocal range through advances in electrified sound, crooners of the early 20th century, like Al Bowlly and Gene Austin, were equally intimate with the microphone, as were divas like Annette Hanshaw and Mildred Bailey.

Many up-and-coming artists thirst for an OVO cosign, while a smaller subset rebel against the idea of conforming to the mainstream, finely-produced sound of the 6 God and his roster of R&B crooners.

And when a bunch of would-be cowboy and girl crooners get together, you better believe there's a whole lot of glitz, glamour and (in some cases) sky-high bouffants hairsprayed to within a inch of their lives.

So, of course, today's second generation of supers are no exception either, and though Gigi Hadid has dated her fare share of crooners in the past, her current relationship with Zayn Malik seems to be here to stay.

Finally—just as Aja and Gaucho succeeded in taking the most interesting elements of jazz and crooners, in order to evoke a California sterilized by East Coast negativity—Cross constructed, in obsessive fashion, its vision of an American rock.

Washed in a delightful soundtrack of crooners and early pop stars (a recent scene, scored to the sexy come-on of April Stevens's "Teach Me Tiger," perfectly captures the eroticism of inexperience), the program excels at easily digested grit.

Like most of the Christmas classics we still hold dear, that collaboration occurred during a period in the 1970s and 1980s, when contemporary artists started to challenge older crooners like Crosby, Andy Williams and Perry Como for seasonal domination.

At its core, Foam is a carefully crafted pop album—informed heavily by the 70s pop crooners like Sandro de America, José José, and others that filled Latinx and Latin American airwaves as the members of the band grew up.

A jagged lament by a jilted lover, it blended Elvis' distinctive vocal, a thumping bass line and a stinging guitar riff to land like a firecracker in a radio landscape filled with bland crooners such as Pat Boone and Doris Day.

And Michael Feinstein will present three different programs, one dedicated to the music of Peter Allen (April 10-11), another titled "Great American Crooners" (May 15-16), and the last focused on the songwriting team Lerner and Loewe (June 5-6).

Few vocalists have as distinctive a sound as Parlato, whose sibilant, sighing soprano and querying, half-spoken inflection — influenced by Brazilian bossa nova, folk and romantic crooners past — have made her one of the most immediately recognizable figures in jazz.

The two country crooners surprised their Nashville neighbors on Monday evening by dressing up as carolers and going door-to-door to sing Christmas songs along with their wives Lauren Akins and Hayley Hubbard as well as friends Russell and Kailey Dickerson.

Abbey and I had fallen into a state of no contact and I liked hearing this constant chorus of country crooners, blues singers, alt-rock shriekers, familiar voices from classic rock and wounded soul men and women say all the things we weren't saying.

Traditional crooners like Ms. Smith were in the house, as was a fresh-faced young man named William Michael Morgan, who played his debut single "I Met a Girl" ("He ain't been off the teat long," quipped Mike Snider, one of the other musicians).

He took the melodies he secretly appreciated growing up made by crooners like Trey Songz, Chris Brown and Mary J. Blige—artists that dominated pop radio but didn't fit into the "hardcore" lifestyle he and his partners were living at the time, he says—and added street-focused lyrics.

Psychedelic sounds from San Fransisco (courtesy of the Grateful Dead), early heavy metal (provided by Deep Purple), country-tinged balladeers (thanks to Linda Ronstadt and the Byrds) and old-school crooners (like the incomparable Tony Bennett) all mingled in the living room of Hef's penthouse—recreated on a CBS soundstage in Los Angeles.

This year's edition, on Randalls Island, features a number of R&B and hip-hop heavyweights high in the lineup: the pioneer Janet Jackson and the melancholy superstar the Weeknd are headlining Saturday and Friday, respectively; the hitmakers Migos, Gucci Mane and Lil Wayne, as well as the critically acclaimed crooners SZA and Daniel Caesar are also featured.

The following is a list of crooners and includes artists who have been described as a crooner at some point in their career. Crooners are singers who sing in a soft, intimate style made possible by the introduction of microphones and amplification.

Allmusic described the album as uninteresting and mostly plodding, with Hayward "becoming the Engelbert Humperdinck of 1960s rock crooners".

Rudy Vallée caricature from the film Crosby, Columbo, and Vallee is a 1932 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon short directed by Rudolf Ising. The short was released on March 19, 1932. It lampoons the popularity of crooners among young women, with popular crooners Bing Crosby, Russ Columbo, and Rudy Vallée being the namesake of the film.

Bulawayo jazz is a form of jazz that originated in the 1950s. A notable artist of this genre are The Cool Crooners.

The main characters were named after famous crooners of the 1950s: Frank (Sinatra), Tony (Bennett), Dean (Martin), Bing (Crosby), Sammy (Davis Jr.), and Perry (Como), all voiced by Doug Parker.

According to DownBeat, for 25 years the Dakota Jazz Club has been one of the world's best jazz venues. Newer on the scene, Crooners in northeast Minneapolis also won world's best in 2020.

As hit followed hit, ("Laisse-moi vivre ma vie" [Let me live my life] (end of 1972– one million records sold), "Viens te perdre dans mes bras" [Come and lose yourself in my arms] (1973), "Chicago" (1975), tour would follow tour. That is when his second son and third child, Anthony, was born, on 8 January 1976. Frédéric François is classified among the "romantic crooners for young girls",The term "romantic crooners for young girls" was not pejorative at the time.

Forever Gentlemen is an album produced by TF1 Musique joining well-known artists. The album was released on 21 October 2013 and includes tributes to crooners of the 1950s.Charts in France: L'album "Forever Gentlemen": Hommage aux crooners le 21 octobre The album entered the SNEP French Albums Chart at number 2 in its first week of release. In 2015 a compilation album of Volumes 1 and 2 was released in Canada reaching No.2 on the Canadian album chart and No.1 on the Quebec chart.

After the war, a combination of factors such as changing demographics and rapid inflation made large bands unprofitable, so that popular music in the US came to be dominated instead by traditional pop and crooners, as well as bebop and jump blues.

Pop View: Young Crooners Learn the Subtle Art of Seduction. The New York Times. Retrieved on 2009-08-13. Critics have also noted Maxwell's falsetto singing voice, and the music's atmospheric, funky instrumentation, featuring mellow horns, wah wah guitar, Rhodes piano and deep, articulate bass lines.

In June 2010, a remix of the album's title track was released as the album's third and final single. In 2015, Sheridan formed The California Crooners Club with mates Emile Welman and Gabe Roland. In Spring 2016, CCC toured Adelaide, Sydney & Melbourne Australia to great critical acclaim.

Robert Earl (born Monty Leigh, 17 November 1926) was an English singer of traditional pop music in the United Kingdom in the 1950s and 1960s, whose style was operatic, like fellow crooners David Whitfield, David Hughes and Edmund Hockridge. He is the father of the businessman Robert Earl.

Ingram is a welcome throwback to the days when crooners just stepped up to the microphone and let their voices go. The idea was just to sing sweetly and let the audience appreciate a fine voice. That's what Always You is all about." Simms also added "Ingram treats his listeners right.

Buddy Clark (born Samuel Goldberg, July 26, 1912 - October 1, 1949) was an American popular singer of the 1930s and 1940s. In the late 1940s, after his return from service in World War II, his career blossomed and he became one of the nation's top crooners. He died in a plane crash in 1949.

Art Deco: The Crooners, Various Artists, Sony, CD, 1993. Liner notes by Michael Brooks. In Alec Wilder's definitive study, American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900–1950, the songwriter and critic writes of Robison: > He, if ever there was one, was the maverick among song writers. Everyone > loved him and many tried to help him, among them John Mercer.

A programmer's delight, this LP includes "Never Can Say Goodbye," "Never My Love" and the title tune. A particularly strong cut is "Leland Loftis." Should make the Sandpipers once again a big chart group. The February 26, 1972 issue of Record World commented:Record World February 26, 1972 The Sandpipers are crooners with a past, present and future.

Six-Five Special stuck to its mix of rock, jazz, skiffle and crooners, but Good was in his rock 'n' roll element with Oh Boy! The programmes were broadcast from the Hackney Empire, London, and made a star of Cliff Richard, as well as showcasing Billy Fury in several editions. Oh Boy! was non-stop rock and roll.

Crooners such as Eddie Fisher, Perry Como, and Patti Page, who had dominated the first half of the decade, found their access to the pop charts significantly curtailed by the decade's end.R. S. Denisoff, W. L. Schurk, Tarnished gold: the record industry revisited (Transaction Publishers, 3rd edn., 1986), p. 13. doo-wop entered the pop charts in the 1950s.

Soon rock and roll was the major force in American record sales and crooners, such as Eddie Fisher, Perry Como, and Patti Page, who had dominated the previous decade of popular music, found their access to the pop charts significantly curtailed.R. S. Denisoff, W. L. Schurk, Tarnished Gold: the Record Industry Revisited (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 3rd edn., 1986), , p. 13.

He voiced the head crow in Disney's Dumbo (1941) and sang "When I See an Elephant Fly". In 1932, Edwards had his first national radio show on CBS Radio. He continued hosting network radio shows through 1946. In the early 1930s, however, Edwards' popularity faded as public taste shifted to crooners such as Russ Columbo, Rudy Vallee, and Bing Crosby.

Al Martino (born Jasper Cini; October 7, 1927 – October 13, 2009) was an American singer and actor. He had his greatest success as a singer between the early 1950s and mid-1970s, being described as "one of the great Italian American pop crooners", and also became well known as an actor, particularly for his role as singer Johnny Fontane in The Godfather.

Lemeul Eugene Lucas (June 24, 1900 – January 24, 1972), better known by his stage name Gene Austin, was an American singer and songwriter, one of the first "crooners". His recording of "My Blue Heaven" sold over five million copies and was the largest selling record of all time. His 1920s compositions "When My Sugar Walks Down the Street" and "The Lonesome Road" became pop and jazz standards.

Maxwell in 1998 The unexpected commercial and critical success of Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite helped establish Maxwell as a serious performer in the music industry. He was described by critics as "part of a new generation of smooth soul crooners", and he obtained a reputation among fans as a sex symbol, which according to one journalist, was due to his "wild" afro and "extravagant cheekbones".Federico, Frank. "Maxwell's Show Is a Scream".

Their musical influences ranged from punk rock and soul music to the American crooners Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett. The band's classic line-up featured Gary Kemp on guitar, synthesiser and backing vocals, his brother Martin Kemp on bass, vocalist Tony Hadley, saxophonist Steve Norman and drummer John Keeble. Gary Kemp was also the band's songwriter. Their debut single, "To Cut a Long Story Short", reached No.5 in the UK in 1980.

In 1984 he was invited to take part in the Spanish television programme "Si yo fuera presidente" for which he created a character inspired in the vocalists and crooners of the 1940s and 1950s who sung a selection of around 100 famous if long-forgotten songs. He formed the Alberto Pérez Orchestra that he would conduct for 12 years. His record "Amar y Vivir" (To Love and To Live) belongs to that period.

The Caterer brothers were raised on rock 'n' roll and crooners like Tony Bennett and Frank Sinatra. In 1980 Matt got a guitar, Josh a bass and Eli a drum set and they began to play together. Soon after, their eyes were opened to the world of the Ramones and punk rock. Other early musical influences included Mel Tormé, Tom Waits, The Replacements, The Smiths, early AC/DC, The Cars, Dinosaur Jr, Hall & Oates, Liberace, and many others.

Stephen C. "Steve" Propes (b. about 1943)Satin-Toned '50s Crooners Find a Home : Doo-Wop: The Southern California society will have a shindig Sunday in Lakewood, Steve Hochman, Los Angeles Times, July 20, 1990, accessed December 27, 2013. is a Long Beach, California record collector, disc jockey, and writer. During the 1980s, Propes hosted an oldies/rhythm and blues radio show on KLON which had a large effect on the classic R&B; revival of the time.

The club increased Sinatra's pay to $1,000 and then $1,500, and he performed for a total of ten weeks, becoming "one of the biggest draws in any New York club". The gig served to prove Sinatra's appeal to more mature audiences than his "bobby soxer" fan base, while autograph seekers thronged outside on the sidewalk. In the wake of Sinatra's success, other clubs rushed to hire "crooners". La Martinique hired Argentine vocalist Dick Haymes, jumpstarting his career.

By the turn of the decade, the Latin music field became dominated by up- tempo rhythms, including electropop, reggaeton, urbano, banda and contemporary bachata music, as Latin ballads and crooners fell out of favor among U.S. Latin radio programmers. Streaming has become the dominant form of revenue in the Latin music industry in the United States, Latin America and Spain. Latin trap gained mainstream attention in the mid-2010s with notable artists such as Ozuna, Bad Bunny, and Anuel AA.

Big Band artists like Tommy Dorsey and old time crooners like Bing Crosby were gone. Artists like Frank Sinatra, The Lettermen, and Johnny Mathis would remain but now shared substantial airtime with songs by more baby boomer artists like Dion, Fats Domino, James Taylor, Paul Anka, Commodores, Kenny Loggins, The Association, Motown artists, and many others. By 1998 classic rockers like The Rolling Stones, The Doors, Billy Joel, Doobie Brothers and others were mixed in. Most of the pop standards staples were eliminated.

In 1958, singer Jerry Vale recorded a tribute album titled I Remember Russ. In 1995, 61 years after Columbo's death, singer Tiny Tim released an album in tribute to Columbo, titled Prisoner of Love (A Tribute to Russ Columbo), which he recorded with the group Clang. Columbo is one of the historical figures named in the Neil Diamond composition "Done Too Soon". Columbo is one of the three famous crooners named in the 1932 Looney Tunes cartoon Crosby, Columbo, and Vallee.

"Chanteur de charme" (English translation: "Crooner") was the French entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1988, performed in French by Gérard Lenorman. The song was performed nineteenth on the night (following Italy's Luca Barbarossa with "Vivo (Ti scrivo)" and preceding Portugal's Dora with "Voltarei"). At the close of voting, it had received 64 points, placing 10th in a field of 21. As befits the title, the song is a ballad, with Lenorman singing about the subject matter that crooners traditionally sing about.

Popular music, or "classic pop," dominated the charts for the first half of the 1950s. Vocal-driven classic pop replaced Big Band/Swing at the end of World War II, although it often used orchestras to back the vocalists. 1940s style Crooners vied with a new generation of big voiced singers, many drawing on Italian bel canto traditions. Mitch Miller, A&R; man at the era's most successful label, Columbia Records, set the tone for the development of popular music well into the middle of decade.

Popular music dominated the charts for the first half of the decade. Vocal-driven classic pop replaced big band/swing at the end of World War II, although it often used orchestras to back the vocalists. 1940s style Crooners vied with a new generation of big voiced singers, many drawing on Italian Canto Bella traditions. Mitch Miller, A&R; man at the era's most successful label, Columbia Records, set the tone for the development of popular music well into the middle of the decade.

Art Gillham (l.) and singer-songwriter Gene Austin at Atlanta's WQXI (September, 1953). Art Gillham (January 1, 1895, St. Louis, Missouri – June 6, 1961, Atlanta, Georgia) was an American songwriter, who was among the first crooners as a pioneer radio artist and a recording artist for Columbia Records. With Billy Smythe and Scott Middleton he wrote "Hesitation Blues", which he also recorded as one of the first electrical recordings for Columbia Records(Rust). The song is heard in the following movies The Public Enemy, Of Human Bondage and Fireman Save My Child (IMDB).

In the 1980s, Petersen formed a band, called Sapphyre, that played interpretations of traditional Cape Malay songs. In 1986 he and David Kramer collaborated on the first of a number of musicals together, District Six: The Musical, exploring the culture and history of the Coloured community in Cape Town. This was followed by Poison, Fairyland, Crooners, Kat and the Kings, Klop Klop and Spice Drum Beat: Ghoema. A number of these toured internationally; Kat and the Kings had runs in Las Vegas, New York's Broadway and in London's West End.

Dion's first foray into the industry was via the R&B; group Jonz who released a record in 1999 henceforth gaining notoriety on BET's "The Way We Do It" but it wasn't until being brought on board via an audition with Cincinnati-based producer Hi-Tek sponsored by Def Jam and MCA records, that solidified his position as one of Hip Hop's go to crooners. Shortly thereafter Dion gained the attention of West Coast Hip Hop pioneer Dr. Dre who invited him to work with The Game for Game's debut album The Documentary.

Early July Milko partnered with French chanteuse Amandine Petit for a Jacques Brel tribute at Guillaume on Bennelong at The Sydney Opera House for the Chris O'Brien Foundation Charity lunch. With 2 new shows in 2012; THE FRENCH CROONERS & BY POPULAR DEMAND, Milko now has a catalogue of 8 productions available for booking." Milko Foucault –Larche Linkedin" gives a complete list of all productions and their various band combinations. Also in 2012, Milko produced & directed the second edition of Nostalgie Lyrique at Petersham Town Hall in Sydney with a cast of 41 .

One of the great crooners of the day, he gained an international following and appeared at venues such as Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Nelson sold more than 62 million albums around the globe and is the second best-selling Brazilian artist of all time, behind Roberto Carlos (77 million). His personal life was sometimes filled with turmoil and at one time, a cocaine addiction almost destroyed his career. Having an outstanding singing voice, he was known to have a stutter in his regular speech.

Being a modern cosmopolitan society, today, all types of music can be found in Quebec. From folk music to hip-hop, music has always played an important role in Quebercers culture. From La Bolduc in the 1920s–1930s to the contemporary artists, the music in Quebec has announced multiple songwriters and performers, pop singers and crooners, music groups and many more. Quebec's most popular artists of the last century include the singers Félix Leclerc (1950s), Gilles Vigneault (1960s–present), Kate and Anna McGarrigle (1970s–present) and Céline Dion (1980s–present).

The Alley has been mentioned in travel and restaurant guides to Oakland and the San Francisco Bay Area. The book, GrassRoutes Travel Guide to Oakland: The Soul of the City Next Door, said of The Alley that it was "an old-time alternative to karaoke" and that it represented "Oakland at its friendliest." The bar attracted "a wacky mix of hams and crooners", said the Lonely Planet, and there were no beers on draft but the mixed drinks were "strooooong." Rough Guides listed The Alley as a bar in 2003 then as a live music venue in 2011.

As the singing cowboy genre developed it kept its themes of the American west and cowboy life, but moved away from its folk music origins to adapt to popular tastes. Singing cowboys typically recorded with big band arrangements, often in the western swing style popularized by Bob Wills, and were also influenced by the vocal style of crooners such as Bing Crosby. Crosby himself also made a single appearance as a singing cowboy in Rhythm on the Range (1936), including the song "I'm an Old Cowhand (From the Rio Grande)" which many other singing cowboys later performed.

Sinatra's massive popularity was also one of the reasons why the big band music declined in popularity; major record companies were looking for crooners and pop singers to attract a youth audience due to his success. Frank Sinatra would go on to become one of the most successful artists of the 1940s and one of the best selling music artists of all time. Sinatra remained relevant through the 1950s and 60s, even with rock music being the dominant form of music in his later years. In the later decades, Sinatra's music would be mostly aimed at an older adult audience.

This look transcended into the R&B; world in the mid-1990s when Jodeci came onto the scene, who were crooners but with a more edgy and sexual look. By wearing gangster-style clothes along with the bad-boy attitude and being a R&B; group, they appealed to both men and women. They were particularly known for their baggy clothing, symbolising a hand-me- down from an older relative with a bigger build, as a sign of toughness. On the East Coast, "ghetto fabulous" fashion (a term coined by Sean Combs) was on the rise.

She has been replaced by Anne-Sophie Lapix. Since September 2013, she presents Fais-moi une place on France 5, a monthly program in which celebrities present a place where they like to spend their time. Since January 2014, she presents on France 2 the variety program Tenue de soirée exigée. The first broadcast was dedicated to crooners, American charm singers. She started presenting in October 2014 the talk show Un soir à la Tour Eiffel on the second part of Wednesday evening, where she receives guests on a stage located on the second floor of the Eiffel tower.

At a point in the distant future, the inhabitants of Planet Earth have become divided into two factions who despise each other. In Beatland live the hip and trendy people who have long hair, dress in polo neck jumpers, jeans and sunglasses and listen to cool beat music. Their counterparts on Ballad Isle keep their hair short and tidy, wear button-down shirts and pressed slacks or floral dresses and twinsets, and listen exclusively to crooners. A musical competition is staged annually between the two sides, overseen by the neutral and powerful record company executive Mr. A&R; (Thornton).

With the advent of electronic recording, Austin, along with Rudy Vallee, Art Gillham, Nick Lucas, Johnny Marvin and Cliff Edwards, adopted an intimate, radio-friendly, close-miked style that took over from the full- voiced, stage-friendly style of tenor vocals popularized by such singers as Henry Burr and Billy Murray. Such later crooners as Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, and Russ Columbo all credited Austin with creating the musical genre that began their careers. Austin also influenced his friend, Jimmie Rodgers (who considered Austin his "idol"), and as such contributed to the birth of Country music.

Mœnia is a Mexican electronica/synthpop/ambient group. Popular within the Latin club scene while simultaneously pioneering a darker, more experimental, more poetic side of Spanish-language electronica, Mœnia has had three top-20 hits. Along with Aleks Syntek, Mœnia is often considered one of the first successful experimental Mexican music composers and performers, finding commercial viability in a market normally dominated by Latin ballad crooners, teenage vocal groups and musical styles with more mass appeal like cumbia, reggaeton and ranchera. Mœnia is also popular in other parts of Latin America, including the Argentinian and Chilean music markets, where they have also charted.

Free from his group commitments, Wilder could now focus solely on Recoil. In September 1996, he began work in his own studio, The Thin Line, gradually piecing together what would become Recoil's next album Unsound Methods. Guest vocalists this time played a more up-front role than ever and featured Maggie Estep, Siobhan Lynch, the reappearance of Douglas McCarthy, and Hildia Campbell. In the spring of 2000, Recoil released Liquid which this time featured fellow Mute artist Diamanda Galás, 1940s gospel crooners the Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet, along with New York spoken-word performers Nicole Blackman and Samantha Coerbell.

" Ken Capobianco of The Boston Globe said that Songz had developed as a vocalist stating his voice was more "elastic" and he used his falsetto "judiciously." Capobianco commended tracks like "Be Where You Are," and "Love Lost", commenting that "tracks like that show that he is indeed ready for the next step." Andrew Rennie of Now said, "slight deviations from R&B;’s classic formula allow Trey Songz wiggle room to play with his multi-octave voice. This offering sets him apart from other acts and may secure his spot in the canon of bedroom crooners.

Meanwhile, Georg Neumann re-established his company as "Georg Neumann GmbH" in one of the Allied sectors of Berlin and in 1949 began producing a new model of switchable pattern microphone, the U 47, based on the M 7 capsule of the earlier CMV 3 series. This microphone was one of the first condenser microphones to gain widespread acceptance in the recording industry worldwide. In the United States, for example, the "sound" of the best-known crooners of the 1940s (e.g. Bing Crosby and later Elvis Presley) had utilized the ultra- smooth, rolled-off tone of RCA ribbon microphones; pop recordings in the 1950s (e.g.

Beginning life in 1935 as a dodgem hall and office space, the Crystal Palace has seen many uses over the park's history, including as a dance hall, a BMX track, a games arcade, and a restaurant and bar. Since the 2004 reopening, Crystal Palace has been host to four of the seven rooms used by Luna Park's functions business. The main room stretches across the entire lower floor of Crystal Palace, and is often used for wedding receptions and other large social functions. The Midway-facing exterior of the building is host to numerous sideshow games, such as the Laughing Clowns, Crazy Crooners, and Goin Fishin'.Sydney.

The middle of the 20th century saw a number of very important changes in American popular music. The field of pop music developed tremendously during this period, as the increasingly low price of recorded music stimulated demand and greater profits for the record industry. As a result, music marketing became more and more prominent, resulting in a number of mainstream pop stars whose popularity was previously unheard of. Many of the first such stars were Italian-American crooners like Dean Martin, Rudy Vallee, Tony Bennett, Perry Como, Frankie Laine and, most famously, the "first pop vocalist to engender hysteria among his fans" Frank Sinatra.

The soul and funk scene set the stage for District of Columbia's considerable influence in modern R&B.; Besides Toni Braxton, District of Columbia is the hometown of mid-1990s crooners Ginuwine, Mýa, and Tank (raised in Clinton, MD), as well as the more current J. Holiday, Raheem DeVaughn and Reesa Renee (who are both from the neighboring Prince George's County, Maryland). Central Heat, an East Coast touring R&B; band based out of Northern Virginia originated in the late 1970s and features founding members Doug and Dennis Flynn, Mike Cavaliere and Bob Costlow. Central Heat remains active in the DC club scene today.

Despite Vives's newfound fame as an actor to coincide with his musical aspirations, his recordings were no match to fellow established crooners in the same genre. His debut and his second release No Podrás Escapar de Mí, were lost in the shuffle in a market that included superstars such as Julio Iglesias and Juan Gabriel. Although his acting overshadowed any album recordings, Vives would continue, undaunted, with his subsequent release in the summer of 1989, a year that would see further fame and exposure in Carlos's rise to popularity. On June 6, 1989, "Al Centro de la Ciudad" (To Downtown), was released, coinciding with one of the busiest years in Vives's acting.

Billy Murray newspaper ad from 1919 Murray was a devoted baseball fan, and he is said to have played with the New York Highlanders (Yankees) in exhibition games. He also supposedly sometimes called in sick to recording sessions in order to go to the ballpark. Murray recorded "Tessie, You Are the Only, Only, Only", which became the unofficial theme of the 1903 World Series, when the words were changed from "Tessie, you know I love you madly" to "Honus, why do you hit so badly?" Murray's popularity faded as public taste changed and recording technology advanced; the rise of the electric microphone in the mid-1920s coincided with the era of the crooners.

"Michelle" was the most successful track from Rubber Soul for other recording artists and attracted dozens of cover versions within a year of its release. Author Peter Doggett lists it with "Yesterday" and several other Beatles compositions, mostly written by McCartney, that provided contemporary relevance for "light orchestras and crooners" in the easy listening category, persuaded adults that the new generation's musical tastes had merit and, by becoming some of the most widely recorded songs of all time, "ensured that Lennon and McCartney would become the highest-earning composers in history". The song was a UK hit in January 1966 for the Overlanders, whose version topped the Record Retailer chart. It also reached number 2 in Australia.

Matthew Leung of State Press felt that "with Mondo Amore, Nicole Atkins has really shown her strength as both a singer and songwriter" and noticed that "her awesome vocals and meaningful lyrics help give this album lasting appeal". Jeff Hahne from Creative Loafing wrote that the album is filled with "hints of Americana and rock while still gleaning from blues and pop" and found it "more upbeat than her debut, showing both growth and versatility". August Brown of Los Angeles Times described the album as "sturdy, well-arranged pop that old crooners and hipster blues brothers alike can claim as theirs", while Jonah Weiner from Rolling Stone called it "dreamy, vaguely melancholic, thoroughly pleasant".

Musicians enlisting in the military and travel restrictions made touring difficult for the big bands and dancing became subject to a new tax, which continued for many years, affecting the choices of club owners. By the time World War II ended, the focus of popular music was shifting towards singing crooners such as Frank Sinatra and Jo Stafford. As the cost of hiring big bands had increased, club owners now found smaller jazz groups more cost-effective. Some of Ellington's new works, such as the wordless vocal feature "Transblucency" (1946) with Kay Davis, was not going to have a similar reach as the newly emerging stars. Ellington poses with his piano at the KFG Radio Studio November 3, 1954.

Upon release, Love Is Gone received mostly positive reviews from music critics. Chris Colgan from PopMatters felt that the album features a number of aspects that make Dommin "stand out from the pack", including the "excellent singing" of vocalist and lead guitarist Kristofer Dommin. Colgan described his "soulful" voice as "completely unique", carrying the "best elements" of many different influences, including 1950s crooners and 1960s soul, but also a dark alternative styles of bands like Depeche Mode and Staind. Max Barrett from Blistering wrote that "the heart and soul of Love Is Gone clearly stems from the lyrics of frontman Kristofer Dommin, who gives an inspiring performance where his heartache and torment is laid on a platter for the listener".

The gang is putting on another big show in Spanky's cellar, complete with an orchestra led by Buckwheat (Billie Thomas), and performances by Darla (Darla Hood) and many of the other neighborhood kids. However, "King of Crooners" Alfalfa (Carl Switzer), the star of the show, crashes the swing music based show with his off-key rendition of "The Barber of Seville", having secretly decided he is going to sing opera from now on. Spanky closes the curtain on Alfalfa and sends out another act to replace him, causing Alfalfa to walk out and take his voice "where it'll be appreciated!" With Porky (Eugene Lee) accompanying him, Alfalfa turns up at the Cosmopolitan Opera House, wanting to appear in their next opera.

A tribe of American Indians is unhappy about the way that the three radio crooners (Bing Crosby, Russ Columbo and Rudy Vallée) have influenced their squaws and the cartoon opens with the braves singing the “Crosby, Columbo and Vallée” song. Next a young brave is seen canoeing over various dangers to meet his girl. When he reaches her tipi, he produces a radio and with the help of a spider who provides the necessary connection, the radio gives out with some more of the title song and a snatch of a Crosby-like voice singing “Many Happy Returns of the Day”. The animals in the forest join in and a moose sings “This Is My Love Song” in a Vallée impression.

In 1977, after a series of trips abroad, Casal returned to Spain, where he signed a recording contract with Philips when Spanish music lovers were looking for a substitute for well-loved crooners Nino Bravo and Bruno Lomas. During the 1970s, he performed at a number of different music festivals, and in 1978 he took part in the Benidorm Festival, where he won "Best Young Singer" and "Best Musical Composition.". After breaking his recording contract, Casal threw himself into painting until 1980, when he returned to music, producing other artists, such as Goma de Mascar or the Obús, the first heavy metal group in Spain. EMI took a keen interest in Casal's dual-role and offered him a contract in 1981.

The years passed and a record contract came their way with the help of Super Music Record Shop store owner Sam Azrael. With group member Donald Johnson working in the store for years, Azrael had had plenty of exposure to the crooners. When Herb Abramson, co-founder of Atlantic Records, passed through Baltimore in 1951 on a talent search, Azrael gave the act an audition, and it’s reported the group left the shop that very night as the newest artists on Atlantic. In March 1950 the group came to New York, cutting four sides for their first release and simultaneously becoming The Cardinals. Five months later Shouldn’t I Know peaked at #7 on the Billboard Best Seller R&B; chart.

The film opens with Bing, a crooner, singing 'In My Hideaway' over the radio and at the conclusion of the song he arranges over the microphone to meet his girl Helen in 15 minutes so that they can elope. Helen's father, who hates crooners, is listening to the radio and with Helen's fiancé and two hired detectives awaits Bing's arrival. When Bing arrives outside Helen's window he gives a pre-arranged whistling signal but Helen's father, dressed in her clothes, climbs down the ladder and seizes Bing while Helen's fiancé and the two detectives appear on the scene to assist. The elopement is stopped therefore but later Bing, after singing 'Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea' telephones Helen from his hotel room.

Author Iain Ellis attributes some of the attitude behind Cool Cymru figures to the perception that Wales had, for much of the 1960s and 1970s, been 'perennial underachievers' of the Union, stuck with "old-fashioned crooners" like Shirley Bassey and Tom Jones while England was represented across the globe by Beatlemania, The Rolling Stones, and The Who. Ellis describes how "Scotland and Northern Ireland awoke to the call of punk, post-punk, and indie rock", from international names like Primal Scream, Average White Band, the Bay City Rollers in Scotland; and The Undertones and Van Morrison in Northern Ireland. In contrast he describes how Wales had "a largely barren rock history". This perceived inadequacy, Ellis argues, spurred the rebellious and unconventional direction of pioneers like Cerys Matthews and Richey Edwards.

's imitations of classic sounds "intelligent, sometimes brilliant", "witty", and "tremendously likable", with "a new recurring theme: what makes a man a man and a woman a woman, explored with both frankness and slyness". Sonia Murray of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution hailed it as the band's most effectual and multifaceted record yet, while Chicago Tribune critic Greg Kot said, "they find rapture that is steeped in reality rather than in the upwardly mobile fantasy concocted by many of today's less tradition-conscious R&B; crooners."; . "The Tonies serve as a sort of stylistic missing link", J. D. Considine wrote in The Baltimore Sun, "suggesting what would have happened had the soul styles of the '70s continued to evolve, instead of being tossed aside by the synth-driven sound of the '80s".

Critic Philip Auslander argues that the distinction between pop and rock is more pronounced in the US than in the UK. He claims in the US, pop has roots in white crooners such as Perry Como, whereas rock is rooted in African-American music influenced by forms such as rock and roll. Auslander points out that the concept of pop rock, which blends pop and rock is at odds with the typical conception of pop and rock as opposites. Auslander and several other scholars such as Simon Frith and Grossberg argue that pop music is often depicted as an inauthentic, cynical, "slickly commercial" and formulaic form of entertainment. In contrast, rock music is often heralded as an authentic, sincere, and anti-commercial form of music, which emphasizes song writing by the singers and bands, instrumental virtuosity, and a "real connection with the audience".

The protagonist (voiced by spoonerism specialist Joe Twerp), who drives an ice-delivery truck, is wooed by a homely spinster bird (voiced by Elvia Allman) who hopes to entice him with her culinary talents. The iceman, on the other hand, is only interested in Katie Canary (a Katharine Hepburn impression also voiced by Allman), who only wants to marry a radio crooner and rebuffs his overtures to the point where she prefers ordering a refrigerator. The iceman, in order to win Katie, hires a voice imitator, Professor Mockingbird, to simulate crooners from the back of his ice truck while the iceman lip-syncs. The scheme eventually backfires when Professor Mockingbird turns blue from the extreme cold in the ice truck, and gets sick to the point that he sneezes the top of the truck off, causing Katie to discover the iceman's ruse.

The great success of young rock stars like Elvis Presley and Pat Boone, film stars like Marlon Brando, Paul Newman, James Dean, Tab Hunter, and Sal Mineo in the 1950s, as well as the wider emergence of youth subcultures, led promoters to the deliberate creation of teen idols such as singers Frankie Avalon, Fabian Forte, Frankie Lymon, and Connie Stevens. Even crooners like Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra were still considered idols and rather handsome. Actors Edd Byrnes and Troy Donahue and other artists deliberately cultivated a (safer) idol image, like Paul Anka. Portable phonograph Post-war teens were able to buy relatively inexpensive phonographs — including portable models that could be carried to friends' houses — and the new 45-rpm singles. Rock music played on 45s became the soundtrack to the 1960s as people bought what they heard on the radio.

John Barbour worked for the health board as a technician for the telecoms department, because of this he was in a perfect position to install and operate the fixed wire system which would carry the service. The original service reached Ayrshire Central Hospital (ACH), the adjacent maternity unit and Ravenspark Hospital. The service was listened to on a small handheld speaker which needed to be held close to the ear, there were also some speakers with volume controls in the day rooms, in addition to this, impromptu performances by singers and bands were held around the wards, none of these were broadcast. The first programmes produced by HBSA were recorded onto reel to reel tape offsite. The first shows were mostly aimed at an older audience and often featured country music and Scottish music by artists like Jimmy Shand supplemented with standards by the “ratpack” and the crooners of the 1950s.

Originally "organized in the Fall of 1945"Quartets Are Almost 'Sung Out'", Richmond Times-Dispatch, December 26, 1948" with 24 members of local quartets,"'Enforced Silence' Anniversary Finds SPEBSQSA 'Off Key'", Richmond Times-Dispatch, May 13, 1948 the Richmond affiliate of SPEBSQSA received its official charter from the society on December 6, 1952 with "almost 40 members"Crooners To Organize: Charter Party Planned", Richmond News Leader, December 5, 1952". Its Charter Party was attended by "approximately 150 persons"Barbershoppers Put Accent On Music at Charter Party", Richmond Times- Dispatch, December 7, 1952". Dean Snyder from SPEBSQSA (and founding member of the Alexandria Harmonizers), presided at the ceremony to hand the charter to then chapter president, Dr. Ralph M. Roberts. The Richmond affiliate started proceedings to get an official SPEBSQSA charter in September 1952"New Group To Form: Baritones Here Seek Harmony", Richmond News Leader, September 19, 1952 and open up its membership to men who wanted to sing in an ensemble chorus.

Retrieved 13 February 2018.Illife, David Long live the bush ballad, ABC Southern Queensland, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 28 January 2014. Retrieved 13 February 2018.Benoit, Lisa Rocky songwriter brings home gold after winning bush ballad, The Morning Bulletin, News Corp Australia, 28 January 2014. Retrieved 13 February 2018. Jamieson was responsible for establishing a community radio station in the Central Queensland coal mining town of Blackwater in 1998.Grant, Hilary; 'Local station on air', The Blackwater Herald, News Corp Australia, 20 October 1998. Retrieved 13 February 2018 He currently lives in the Central Queensland town of Bouldercombe, where he organises the annual community event, 'The Bouldy Bush Ballad Bash'.Lewis, Tammy Bouldy Bush Ballad Bash with performers of all ages, The Observer, News Corp Australia, 2 May 2013. Retrieved 13 February 2018.Bards of the bush and country crooners, The Morning Bulletin, News Corp Australia, 9 May 2014. Retrieved 13 February 2018.Plane, Melanie Bouldy Bush Ballad Bash a country treat, The Morning Bulletin, News Corp Australia, 19 May 2017. Retrieved 13 February 2018.

The Great Depression era of the 1930s brought a stream of songs of American origin, most of which did not explicitly reference the Christian nature of the holiday, but rather the more secular traditional Western themes and customs associated with Christmas. These included songs aimed at children such as "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" and "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", as well as sentimental ballad-type songs performed by famous crooners of the era, such as "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" and "White Christmas", the latter of which remains the best-selling single of all time as of 2018. Performances of Christmas music at public concerts, in churches, at shopping malls, on city streets, and in private gatherings is an integral staple of the Christmas holiday in many cultures across the world. Radio stations often convert to a 24-7 Christmas music format leading up to or during the holidays, starting sometimes before Thanksgiving in the United States – as part of a phenomenon known as "Christmas creep".