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^^^ I suspect that learning to croon has actually proved no more valuable to people born in or after the WWII years than learning to dance or play the piano. It just doesn't work like that anymore...
^^^I read that the style developed due to the sensitivity of sound/recording equipment back then. It would be awhile before people could "belt it out" without fear of damage. After all, it was in the Sixties before someone put together a sound system that could handle the heavier aspects of rock. I've also read that the man who accomplished this happened to like The Grateful Dead and offered them the use of it first. I'll have to do some research to check that out, as I read it long ago in books about the Sixties. My muddled memory doesn't retrieve too well anymore.
Crooning certainly did it for Al Bowlly, Bring Crosby and others. Nowadays, people such as Harry Connick Jr. and Michael Buble work with that style. I still hear it from some artists.
^^^Olivia had such a cleancut image till she was transformed in "Grease". She said that, until then, she didn't think she could be sexy. While filming "Grease", she met much younger actor/singer/dancer Matt Lattanzi. *sparks* Next thing, she was chopping off her hair and starring in a special comprised of a number of videos. At least one includes the gorgeous guy=} He also shows up later in the "Can't We Talk It Over in Bed?" video, at which point he was her husband.
Forgive me for so many songs by this man, but, seriously, he's been helping me get through the night. Since my younger sister died in her sleep, nights have been frightening for me with my jittery, wonky heartbeat. Each dawn is relief. Since I "discovered" this man's music, he has helped me get through not only the days but also especially those wee hours of the night when the body is at its lowest ebb. When my heart starts skipping beats and floundering, I lean back and listen to his songs, and I relax. Strangely, Ed Bowlly also died in his sleep, the victim of one of Hitler's bombs during the London blitz.
^^^I think the song did a lot to fuel that fad! Someone at YouTube wrote that, the next day, all of the high school girls seemed to be wearing headbands! I think that even people who didn't work out dressed as if they did. Shades of "Flashdance", too!
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