List of crooners

This is a list of crooners—singers who sing in a soft, intimate style made possible by the introduction of microphones and amplification.[1] "Crooner" is an American epithet given to male singers of pop standards, mostly from the Great American Songbook, backed by a full orchestra, a big band or by a piano. Originally it was an ironic term denoting an emphatically sentimental and often emotional singing style.

Living crooners

Deceased crooners

References

  1. 1 2 C. W. E. Bigsby (2006), The Cambridge companion to modern American culture, p. 347, ISBN 978-0-521-84132-0
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Richard Grudens (2005-02-04), The Italian Crooners Bedside Companion, ISBN 978-0-9763877-0-1
  3. ↑ The Divine Comedy - Tonight we fly (Live) (A/V stream). YouTube. May 12, 2009. Retrieved June 15, 2013.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Michael Pitts; Frank Hoffmann (2001), The Rise of the Crooners: Gene Austin, Russ Columbo, Bing Crosby, Nick Lucas, Johnny Marvin, and Rudy Vallee, ISBN 0-8108-4081-2
  5. 1 2 Allison McCracken (1999), ""God's Gift to Us Girls": Crooning, Gender, and the Re-Creation of American Popular Song, 1928–1933", American Music, University of Illinois Press, 17 (4): 365–395, doi:10.2307/3052656, JSTOR 3052656
  6. ↑ Clifton, Tony (January 20, 2010). "Tony Clifton" (Interview). Interviewed by Nathan Rabin. Retrieved June 15, 2013.
  7. ↑ Joseph Lanza; Dennis Penna (2002-11-01), Russ Columbo and the Crooner Mystique, ISBN 978-0-922915-80-4
  8. ↑ Richard Grudens (2003), Bing Crosby Crooner of the Century, ISBN 978-1-57579-248-4
  9. ↑ Pamela Robertson Wojcik; Arthur Knight (2001), Soundtrack available, p. 105, ISBN 978-0-8223-2800-1
  10. ↑ Gérard Herzhaft; Paul Harris; Brigitte Debord; Jerry Haussler; Gé Anton J. Mikofsky (1997), Encyclopedia of the blues, p. 35, ISBN 978-1-55728-452-5
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