Crooner Culture

January 28th, 2008

Crooner Week: Lena Horne - Did You Know?

This week’s crooner is Lena Horne! Here’s some info on the legendary “woo-woo-woo-woo” female jazz crooner:

Lena Mary Calhoun Horne was born June 30, 1917 in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City, New York. She grew up in an upper middle class black bourgeois community.
Horne became the first African American performer to sign a long-term contract with […]

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January 20th, 2008

Crooner Week: Bobby Darin - My all time favorite Darin song, mp3, and lyrics

Bobby Darin Crooner Week is over, gang. I’m leaving you with an mp3 and lyrics to one of my all time favorite Bobby Darin song and the lyrics. I even snagged a YouTube vid of him singing this one. Can you guess what it is before you click to get through the jump?
I’ll give you […]

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January 17th, 2008

Crooner Week: Bobby Darin Around The Web

Sorry for the delays in posting, gang… but here are some great sites around the web for info on Bobby Darin!
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Official Bobby Darin Website - Fantastic site with loads of info, lyrics, and news. There was a “Darin Lifetime Event 2007” that was a four day celebration of Darin’s […]

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January 13th, 2008

Bobby Darin Crooner Week About To Begin!

Okay, so Bing Crosby week went okay, but I know there’s got to be a lot more out there on Bobby Darin, given his tormented life, his courting and later marriage to Sandra Dee, and all that jazz.
Anyone have any favorite Bobby Darin songs, or clips you’d like to see on the site this […]

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January 12th, 2008

Crooner Week: Bing Crosby - What Else Is There To Say?

Okay, so my first crooner week experiment probably shouldn’t have been on Bing Crosby. I mean, sure, I found that restaurant link, and some old videos on YouTube, but for the most part, he was a great performer on screen and stage, and had an amazing vocal talent. But when it comes to recordings, or […]

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January 9th, 2008

Crooner Week: Bing Crosby - Around The Web

I figured I’d post a collection of links and information around the web about Bing Crosby today as part of the very first Crooner Culture Crooner Week featuring Bing Crosby.
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January 5th, 2008

New Feature: Crooner Weeks

Okay, so I find myself getting sucked into the worlds of these crooners and then it’s time to write about another one. But I’m not finished writing about the first one, so I’ve done some thinking and decided that maybe I should just focus on one crooner per week and then go down my list, […]

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