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crooner

crooner \croon"er\ n. a singer of popular ballads.

Syn: balladeer.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
crooner

type of popular singer, 1930, agent noun from croon.

Wiktionary
crooner

n. One who croons; a singer, usually male, especially of popular music.

WordNet
crooner

n. a singer of popular ballads [syn: balladeer]

Wikipedia
Crooner

Crooner is an American epithet given to male singers of jazz standards, mostly from the Great American Songbook, either backed by a full orchestra, a big band or by a piano. Originally it was an ironic term denoting an emphatically sentimental, often emotional singing style made possible by the use of microphones. Some performers, such as Russ Columbo, did not accept the term: Frank Sinatra once said that he did not consider himself or Bing Crosby "crooners".

Crooner (film)

Crooner is a 1932 American pre-Code musical drama film directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring David Manners along with Ann Dvorak and Ken Murray. It concerns the abrupt rise and fall of a popular crooner, Ted Taylor.

Usage examples of "crooner".

Hartmann remembered a mealymouthed version popular when he was a teenager, sung by Bobby Darin or some such teen-idol crooner.

He imitated popular crooners and his renditions were so comical that I had ended up laughing like a child.

As soon as Elvis appeared, all the earlier crooners were driven quickly to near-extinction.

Of all the crooners of that era, none has vanished so utterly and so precipitously as Dean Martin.

Because budget and broom-closet constraints make artful transitions between scenes impractical, Mario has opted for the inter-scenic 'entr'acte' device of having Johnny Gentle, Famous Crooner doing some of his repertoire's bouncier numbers, with the cabinet-members undulating and harmonizing Motownishly behind him, and other puppets bouncing in tempo on and offstage as the script requires.

This catastatic feature of the puppet-film's plot that Johnny Gentle, Famous Crooner threatens to bomb his own nation and toxify neighbors in an insane pout over Canada's reluctance to take redemised title over O.

Don Wachtel and Al Marks are radio actors, Tim Costigan used to be a crooner with the big bands and Augie Duarte is a budding actor who I've found commercial work for.

Don Wachtel and Al Marks are radio actors, Tim Costigan used to be a crooner with the big bands and Augie Duarte is a budding actor who I’.

The chamber-music group was followed by a black-leather-garbed crooner doing vintage rockabilly, but in a language Beth didn't know.

The chamber-music group was followed by a black-leather-garbed crooner doing vintage rockabilly, but in a language Beth didn’.

The chamber-music group was followed by a black-leather-garbed crooner doing vintage rockabilly, but in a language Beth didnt know.