Swoon Department
B asic SABLON, described by 3YA as a baritone, sang four songs from that station on Thursday night. He is not a baritone of the Lawrence Tibbett
stamp, but could more accurately be described as a popular vocalist, or let’s face it, a crooner. He is a Frenchman, ‘who probably found post-war France a discouraging place, for, as Max Bacon used to insist, even a crooner must eat. However, he is now
settied comiortaDly in New York; catering for the late-night heart-throb trade at one of the more expensive taverns. Judged by the four records played by 3YA he has a pleasant enough voice, if you’re not a purist, a little less fervent than Sinatra, a little less easy riding than Crosby, no better than the voices of several dozen other young gentlemen who work at the trade. Why then his reported success? Why the frantic maids and matrons who grovel at his feet? Well he has cute eyelashes and eloquent hands, and no doubt is as essential to America’s tired business women as Gipsy Rose Lee is to the weary tycoons of Wall Street.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 396, 24 January 1947, Page 19
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187Swoon Department New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 396, 24 January 1947, Page 19
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