Occupation: Singer Birth: July 22, 1924 Death: January 10, 2011
So many schools have cut the music classes out of their curriculum. We're trying to fill that gap by teaching the teachers how to educate the kids ab….
The musicians recommend that I sing a sing the way it is written the first time and then start to look for other notes that aren't in the melody..
That's really what was wonderful for me growing up, since I got to know so many of the songwriters who liked me and thought I had talent. They would ….
Doris Day was such a big movie and TV star, people overlooked her singing. The proof is in the package. She's one of the best singers there ever was..
Johnny Mercer was my father's best friend and became mine as well. And Harold Arlen, whom I would call Uncle Harry, and Harry Warren: those were ones….
I had years of experience that I still needed to accumulate and go through..
The way I teach people to sing... I have them talk the lyric out until it sounds like something they really believe, like an actor with a monologue..
[On the premiere of a dull show:] I've seen more excitement at the opening of an umbrella..