Crooners were a special musical species that left an undeniable mark on popular music. While it's possible to imitate a crooner and carve a career from it, the cold hard truth is the classical crooner is gone.
Habits have changed is all. Part of the charm with cool crooners they dressed sharp, drank and smoked on stage, and told stories as they sang - on pitch. Note for note.
Try that in these politically correct, uptight world.
While I was born past the golden age of crooning, I did get a chance to see Tony Bennett. True, he was more "clean" than his long-dead contemporaries (I don't think Bennett ever showed up on stage with a cigarette or with a martini in hand. I could be wrong), but his singing and charm alone made the concert memorable.
No, I don't know why a decent amount of legendary crooners happen to be of Italian (and Jewish) ancestry.
Russ Columbo is one of those "lost" legends:
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