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A crooner is a singer who performs with a smooth, intimate style that originated in the 1920s. The crooning style was made possible by better microphones that picked up quieter sounds and a wider range of frequencies, allowing the singer to access a greater dynamic range and exploit the proximity effect.
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In 1929, the rapid rise in the radio popularity of Rudy Vallee prompted Osborne to add his own vocals to his recordings. In common with Vallee, Osborne was classified as a lyric baritone but with the timbre, or tone quality, of a light lyric tenor. His phrasing mirrored the crooning vocal style similar to Rudy Vallée's.
Tommy Ward (born September 19, 1995) is an American singer and musician. [1] [2] He is a crooner and performs songs from the Great American Songbook. [1] [3] [4 ...
Albert Allick Bowlly (7 January 1899 [1] – 17 April 1941) was a South African-British vocalist, crooner and dance band guitarist who was Britain's most popular singer for most of the 1930s. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He recorded upwards of 1,000 songs that were listened to by millions.
Hubert Prior Vallée (July 28, 1901 [1] – July 3, 1986), [2] known professionally as Rudy Vallée, was an American singer, saxophonist, bandleader, actor, and entertainer.He was the first male singer to rise from local radio broadcasts in New York City to national popularity as a "crooner".
He was known as "The Cruising Crooner" because of his unique showmanship of cruising through mostly female audiences attending the live Breakfast Club broadcasts, and crooning love ballads to the blushing and giggling women, often singing directly to them, one at a time, sitting on their laps, and nuzzling close to them.
The label of a British record issue of Whispering Jack Smith's recording of Ich küsse ihre Hand, Madame (In Dreams I Kiss Your Hand, Madame) from 1928.. Jack Smith (born Jacob Schmidt, May 30, 1896 [1] – May 13, 1950), known as "Whispering" Jack Smith, was an American baritone singer who was a popular radio and recording artist.