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Sound is better

MAN

ANY of our modern singers are better heard than

¡giving "live" performances?

seen.

by CARL MYATT

than sight

How many of them damage their careers by

'handles such

as

well Be

In

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Love", "Grieving Fer Mantovani, You" and "Keep It Simple."

Black On MGM E3834.

Dccca the case of For instance in Quite a few, according to Mr E R. Lewis, Chairman of the husband and wife team of known artists

their success Edmundo Ross, Stanley the Decca Recording Company Paul and Ford, whom I had the pleasure of was built on the various tricks and Ted Heath.

With such talent as this, it is of electronics multiple sound, meeting briefly this week.

re wonder that Mr Lewis told "echoes" etc.

Mr and Mrs Lewis were

In

Hongkong for a couple of days. To get these unusual sounds the annual meeting of his Com- G

as just three

OWTA

MRS

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EORGE SHEARING needs little introduction to those curing the course of a round on record, Les Paul worked any recently "The record trade of you who collect records.

This blind Englishman went in a recording studio is entering a must active season

of the year and we have never to America and achieved fame the world tour. And as Mr hard

the aid of competent some with

felt more confident."

and fortune as one of the finest Lewis' company hardle

engineers before

jazz pianists of our day. He of the top singers and musicians recording

[RS JOSE

3 FERRER,-Rose- introduced

new sound in America he is achieving the desired effects. in Europe. and

As a result the public were

mary Clooney to you-has music-soft, controlled jazz in capable of speaking on the

with disappointed af damaged careers terribly subject

cut an album for MGM records which he blended, pizno, vibes, in Paul's live performance for the first time in nearly with some authority.

a guitar, bass and drums into Rosemary has been kept unobstrusive, year.

swinging Mr Lewis cited Les Faul and London. There was no record-

Bobby Darin ing engineer, no tape recorders vry busy appearing on televi- bination. Some people called Mary Ford and

artists whose to help him this time. He was sion and radio shows, looking it "cocktail jazz." but whatever

with his after her actor his

husband and one may wish to brand this on since out waned

up to bringing up five children. But kind of music, it is certainly on the stage in guitar. He didn't come

this album "Rosemary Clooney

Shearing has the crowd's expectations.

easy on the ears. Swings Softly" has been well

since turned to the field of mood worth waiting for.

-music, and in this medium has Rosemary Clooney has taken turned out a series of album: a courageous step in her selec- for Capitol. His previous Les tion of material.

included "Velvet Carpet" and Rosemary has discarded the "Black Satin." Now comes old, well-tried tunes for some "White' Satin" and cn this long lovely sengs rarely heard the player the quintet is backed by days. The material she has the strings and selected is not likely to make any the Billy May orchestra. showing on hit parades, but it's Shearing appears unusually certainly music for the dis- subdued on this album. He criminating listener.

popularity has they appeared England.

THE CAREER CORNER

By ANNE

HEYWOOD

Book shows an can live by his

SHAK

artist work

HAKESPEARE says: "How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”

Well, with all due respect to candles and good deeds. I would Fice to say a word for books. Que really good, helpful and well-written book can change innumerable lives and start rip- ples that broaden as the years go by.

When I first began in the vocational field, I used to en- artists who

counter- many claimed that most people did not appreciate the finer things. As a consequence. they said. they either had to work at a routine job and paint on Sun- days, cr, if they were lucky, marry money.

This Book Shows. How To

Earn Living As Painter..

woodwinds cf

this album

still makes exciting and clways Rosemary Clocney made her interesting music, but is leaning name by singing bouncy tunes further and further away from with catchy lyrics—“Come On A the field of music in which he My House" Icr instance. But made his name. on this LP, she shows her truc Nevertheless capabilities. She handles the should appeal to his many old ballad and up tempo number fans, and perhaps bring him with equal ease, and her relax- some new ones. ed approach to a song is 2n- Some of the tunes you'll hear parent on every track.

include: "How Long Has This She opens this album with Been Going On." the haunting bouncy interpretation of "For "Laura," the very lovely ballad You" and then goes

from "There'll

Be Another Spring" strength tċ strength. Other end "Mocnlight Becomes You." outstanding tracks are "Always On Capital T 1334.

(A TYPICAL DAY FOR AN AMERICAN

First

My death's

memory

I still remember ere I was

dead.

The sorrowful prayer sur

rounded my bed.

And those ha lored m2

cried audibly!

Counting my breath with

sympathy.

窳

MD folks filed passion,

with com-

with

As my mind mingled

emotion.

I seemed to see the daylight

passing away

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I opened my dying eyes to pray.

Then I felt the gentle touch

of mother's arms.

But her face had ruined her

usual charmis

last time I And for the

closed my eyes. Death had illuminated all my

sighs.

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It was time for me to rest at

ease.

And go to the place of ever-

lasting peace

My soul, my body would be

out of pain,

I would not have to struggle

again!

Credit card to Stephen Chan.

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TEENAGER'S FATHER)

'Prom

settle one evening in your favourite chair and switch on the television set.

You not announces, interrupt the commercials to bring you

a programme!" It is one of those evenings when everything is in your favour, until

In bursts your teenaged It seems as if this mild bit of You open the front door and daughter who has just decided conpiracy wis successful, be- you see a heap of scrap iron to drop round, at the house for cause. all through supper the which has deposited itself in her supper before she returns next night you only hear of front of your porch. to the corner drug store.

Charlie Brown-how crazy he. Something-I means someone, "Hi, pops!" she yells and is about your little girl and emerges; "why this must be whacks you real hard on your how he was just dying to ask Charlie Brown," you think. It seemed to me at the time

back and you wonder at this her to the prom.

You let him to the hall, unlikely that some way could.

You think all this over the he gives your hand

a grip of not be worked out to support work. In the past, pain.ers show of affection.

The answer comes after sup- next day and you get sort of iron and beams. oneself in the field one loved, have expected to support them--

"Glad to meetcha, - Mr- but my firsthand knowledge of selves, and have generally super when the young lady sud- mad at that spoilt brat of yours, painting: was not suffenly ceeded. Same have falled, for denly asks you how much you seeing how she had ill-used a Greene"."

a: nit-wit you member. cf your own sex. And You return the sentiment and strong to prove the point, · one reason. cr` azóther, just as love.ber. Like

Wonderful book

some people in other endeavours fall for it, hook, line and sinker sou decided you are going to have failed. Few have grown and answer/abstractlly, "like lecture her on it when you get asher him into the sitting room.

million dollars," where home.

You nearly let out that Mari- wealthy, but most have lived a

upca she asks you if she could - However, you do not get a from their work."

five of that chance to see the young lady to go; however her mother in- jane was all ready and rarin', Needless to say, the book was have just seventy a tremendous help to me in million dollars for a gown, be- until a couple of hours later. forms him instead that she

artists en- cause Charlie Brown was going Nor is her mother to be seen dealing with the "countered; in treating them like to ask her to the prom.

either.

She had left off the supper a Dutch uncle and in- giving them specific suggestions. And

to help your little girl get ready for the prom which is "“my "copy" of the book disap-

tonight.

Then, about six years ago, I came across a wonderful book called, "How To Make A Living As A Painter", by Kemeth - Harris

Charmingly written. it is full of good sense, Mr Harris makes a living as a painter and does Bwithout compromising.. his. zesthetic integrity.

In his first chapter, he says: “A pain ́er, like everyone else who does useful, work, should expect to make a living from that work...

few

Seventeen

peared somewhere along the Mother joins forces with her

Line.

Mentioned book

Then, six years later, when I interviewed Barbara Joslin, the artist I-wrote about some weeks

after

י

and reminds you that it is only three months to your little darling's seventeenth birthday..

Next you wonder how Mari-· jɛne knew that Charlie Brown.

Dream

would be down presently be- cause she was putting on the -finishing touches.

Twenty minutes later she -appears. You swell with pride as the boiling Romeo whisks her into his heap of scrap iren, tear and again that paternal springs to your eye as it roars off and leaves you in a cloud of You're as hungry as anything dust.

get fierce mad. You Your daughter. is going to her storm-up-the stairs to be met prom

by-guess who-Marijane, of first prom. Actually he was going stag course, looking like a dream in. with the fellers, but you happen her new. gown-which you re- to overhear- Marijane's conver- member, wrs paid for by you. sation with her, bestfriend, Judi She turns around to show Janes which explains why he you and all your anger goes in, changes his minú

Credit card to Antoinette Rozario.

"It is true that very artists make a living from the ago, she mentioned this book was going to take her to the you

which had changed her life.

She had hitherto worked on sale of their work: This, haa -- tccome so generally the case the erroneous - Essumption that that most of them accept the you do something else for a idea that it can't be done. Fur- living and print for the love of ther than that, many have comit But

reading Mr to feel that an artist should Harris book, she revised her not expect to live by his work life plan.

a flash-you're touched to the and that one who does must-She was delighted to know "Look here, Judi,” she says, bottom-of- your heart to see first betray his talent".

that I was familiar with it, and "after chem. tomorrow, you what your little girl has grown “This is a new notion 2 barrified to learn that my copy comer Charlie Brown outside to be, so pretty, so dainty, so illogical and destructive one. was gone. The next thing - the lab.and say to him-Hey, -lady-like..

"The creation "of paintings 19 knew, she had sent me a new Charlie Brown, why aren't you. The honk of a-horn awakens the creation of nourishment for copy.

taking Marijane to the prom; you from your reveric, Mari- PETER T. H. LEE, man's spirit, a useful, a neces- As I look at it, I am again then I just happen to appear on jane flies upstairs and you are student, Paterson Building,

unknown by sary, work. A competent painter aware of how much influence the scene and then he can't left to face the should expect to life from that one good book can have.

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