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It is amazing but true that Alice Faye can't read a single note of music but just the same she is adding to her musical laurels with many songs in Alexander9 s Ragtime Band
■ Alice Faye can't read a single note of music,
A flat, to her, is just a place to live in; a cleft has something to do with the palate; a minor is a child under age; a major is an officer in the army; and if someone tossed such musical terms at her as fortissimo, nonlegato, rinforzando, and diminuendo she'd probably say "Cut out the double talk!"
All this may be a trifle on the exaggerated side, but it still remains startlingly true when one considers the astounding success that has come to her since the
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By ELMER SUNFIELD
day she was led out of the manager's office of the Zeigfeld Follies and told to go home and grow up before bothering him about a job in the chorus:
Alice can't read a single note of music.
She's never taken a music lesson in her life.
Yet Cole Porter and Irving Berlin say they'd rather have her plug their songs than any singer in the country. The
late George Gershwin said the same thing which should, and does, make it unanimous for the rest of us. Just let her have a new song and sing it for the first time over the air or on the screen and that song within a week or two is going to be on top of the Hit Parade or a mighty close second.
That's why she's called America's song plugger No. 1!
And if you think that is an empty honor you're not keeping up your musical score nor adding to your knowledge of the show business!
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