[78-L] Victor 24145 ETHEL MERMAN 1932 SATAN'S LI'L LAMB

[Mark Bardenwerper]

On 10/21/2011 5:16, Erwin Kluwer wrote:
> Who the fuck wants to pay anything for Ethel Merman..???!!!!
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What a kind thing to say about a dead person.

Other people say more interesting things
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What this says in effect is that her reputation as being brassy may have 
affected her reputation as a ballad singer. And she was a good at it as 
any of them. She might have been swimming against the current of the day 
of waiflike, whimpering, frail sounding coquettes who depended heavily 
on their overexhibited vulnerability (not that I did not enjoy them 
immensely - they had an attraction that went far beyond their little 
voices).
What ever she was, she nearly made microphones obsolete. She defined 
"stage voice" for many years. I doubt you will EVER hear this type of 
singing made popular again. She represented another time. Voices like 
this and Streisand's are a dying breed. With new technology, stage 
singing (which was also mechanical recording singing) are becoming 
unnecessary and increasingly scarce in modern theater. My wife works in 
a dinner theater here and several actors have told me this.

In her youth, ah, she was a beauty!

She had more talent in one finger than all of us could muster.

-- 
Mark L. Bardenwerper, Sr. #:?)
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