The crooners' sentimental repertory was cast, not as a healthy escape, but rather as a demoralising scourge, especially with the distressing war news of early 1942.
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In addition to instrumental numbers, they featured several vocalists, both of the 'straight' and thecroonervarieties, as well as close-harmony ensembles.
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If we are to have crooners, let them be real crooners.
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It would be doubly good if crooners were put along with them.
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Critics dubbed his musical style countrypolitan, due to its fusion of country music and a more sophisticatedcroonervocal style.
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Although well sung by the novicecrooner, the album did not sell well.
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The album follows the concept of a tribute to the great crooners of the 1950s and their most famous hits.
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It's the rhythm that gets to the kids they're starved of music they can dance to, after all those years of crooners.
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With vocals that are part dive-barcroonerand part righteous rocker, theatrical overtones and gothic undercurrents, the album is overblown, intense and great fun.
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Following the war, the popularity of big bands declined as crooners and bebop came to dominate the charts.
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It wasn't the picture of the lonecroonerstanding in the spotlight.
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In light of his musical career, he was nicknamed thecroonerpolitician after he entered politics.
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Crooners had soft voices that were well suited to the intimacy of the new medium of the radio.
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This new sound led to the popular epithetcrooner.
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In 1939, he became a solocroonerwith a voice described as a strong baritone with a tenor lilt.
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