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Post by jpkansas on Mar 16, 2011 4:37:04 GMT -5
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Post by H2IZCOOL on Mar 16, 2011 10:34:42 GMT -5
1947 - Margaret Truman made her professional radio debut. She sang with the Detroit Symphony Joe, you consider this insignificant?  She was the sitting president's daughter. She learned to sing while Harry played the piano. The only trouble was, she never learned to sing very well. But, hey, she had friends in high places. Many years later on she launched a fairly successful career as a mystery writer. I just checked on Wikipedia and found this gem about her singing: Truman pursued a singing career in the late 1940s. After graduating from George Washington University and receiving some operatic vocal training, she debuted with the radio broadcast of a vocal recital in March 1947. After a performance in December 1950, Washington Post music critic Paul Hume wrote she was “extremely attractive on the stage... [but] cannot sing very well. She is flat a good deal of the time.” Her father, then President, wrote to Hume, "I have never met you, but if I do you'll need a new nose and plenty of beefsteak and perhaps a supporter below." |
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Post by beatles4ever on Mar 16, 2011 11:33:08 GMT -5
A little less than usual..... |
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