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John
at the piano with the three flirtatious 'Andrews Sisters' |
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| John
recently performed in France, singing in both French and English.
Un succes fou! |
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 Eartha
Kitt did a reading of John's play, "Zazou". She played a retired singer
from the Paris music-hall...who commits a murder! Eartha's dangerous quality
was perfect for the role of Zazou; you really believed it when she plunged
a bayonet into the neck of the man who was trying to blackmail her! Eartha
sings one of Zazou's songs "Voice Full of Yes" in her cabaret act. A production
of Zazou is planned by the Times Square Group, a new theater company.
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Margaret Whiting  has
sung many of John's songs and recorded three of them, "Hate Myself", "After
the Holidays" and -on the Big Band Cavalcade album- "Nothing Like It In
the World". They once did a concert together titled "Whiting & Meyer Sing
Meyer & Whiting". Their relationship is profiled in her memoir, "It Might
As Well Be Spring". |
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 Years
ago, John wrote a bunch of double-entendres for Julie Wilson, the
Queen of the Racy Ballad. Julie's gone straight now, concentrating on Sondheim
and Porter, and we hear no more lines like "I didn't fill out a form/They
said 'Your form is filled out enough'"(!). Gone are the days of innocent
scatology. But we remember April...and we smile. |
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