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By CHARLES HENDERSON (with Charles Palmer)
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Oeanna Durbin Says:
"After the hours of personal instruction I've had from Charles reading this. Everything he ever taught me is In it and so much see how any popular singer can do without it."
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"HOW business! A kaleidoscopic world with streets of gold, peopled with inhabitants of unreal beauty and charm, bathed in a mist of glamour. To the outsider, that is. To the insider, it's another way to make a living — a world of contradictions, of drab hours and breathtaking moments, of hokum and honest art, of generous friendships and knives in the back, of heartbreaking failure and skyrocket success, of monotonous mediocrity and flashing inspiration. The most exhausting and well-rewarded work in the universe, and — the hardest gate to crash.
But it can be crashed, and it's worth crashing. Even if it weren't, I wouldn't waste good typewriterribbon trying to argue you out of it. You want to sing for your supper — and a good deal more than your supper — and it's my hope and intention here to show you how.
For this article, and those which will follow it, are messages of hope. Thousands of you sing a little, for your own pleasure or for that of your friends. You'd like to turn
that modest little talent of yours into something that would work for you and make your living — but you don't know how to go about it, and so, until now, you've done nothing. I'd like to show you the right road — tell you how to get a start, how to audition, how to find the songs and the styles that will fit most naturally into your own personality, how to meet and conquer all the problems — some of them big, some
■ Decide what type of song your vocal equipment and personality enable you to handle best.
■ By all means stay away from the old-fashioned teacher who tries to build up your volume.
little — that stand in your way.
And even if you're pretty good, as a singer, I think you'll find some things here that will be useful to you.
You see, most singers don't know their business. They know that a song goes over or flops, but they don't know why. More, they don't realize that singing for money is a selling job, and a two-level one at that.
The singers aren't entirely to
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Copyright, 1939, by Charles Henderson and Charles Palmer
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