The Great American Popular Singers

achieved admirable Afro-American Al Jolson album American popular singers Aretha artists audience B.B. King ballads band Barbra baritone Bessie Smith Bessie's Billie Holiday Bing Crosby Bing's blues singers career church classical singer country music country singer Dorsey Ella Fitzgerald Elvis enunciation Ethel Merman Ethel Waters European example falsetto Fitzgerald flat Frank Sinatra girl guitar Hank Williams head voice hear heard idiom instrumental instrumentalists jazz jazz musicians Jimmie Rodgers Johnny Cash Jolson Judy Garland King Cole knew later learned listeners Louis Armstrong Mahalia Jackson melodic Memphis microphone Mildred Bailey Nat Cole never notes octave orchestra Peggy Lee phrasing pianist pitch playing popular music Presley probably radio range Ray Charles repertoire rhythm rhythm-and-blues rhythmic sang seems sense singer singing slurring song soul sound Streisand style sung theater thing tion told tune vaudeville vocal production vocalist wanted words yodeling young