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Richard Gehr | October 24, 2007

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  • Teresa Brewer, whom Ed Sullivan once introduced as "the little girl with the big voice," died of a neuromuscular disease Wednesday at age 76. Brewer began her career as a country-tinged singer of novelty tunes, such as "Choo'n Gum" and "Molasses, Molasses," before developing into a respected jazz stylist. Watch her perform "Ricochet" on "The George Jessel Show," circa 1953.

  • Folksinger Fred Neil knocked out "Everybody's Talkin'," for the movie "Midnight Cowboy," in about five minutes at the end of a 1966 recording session. He then recorded it in a single take so he could zip home to Miami. More than a hundred other musicians subsequently covered "Talkin'," and Boogie Woogie Flu posts eight of the best versions here.

  • The conceit of director Todd Haynes's upcoming Bob Dylan biopic, "I'm Not There," is that six different actors—Richard Gere, Heath Ledger, and Cate Blanchett among them—portray the artist at different points in his career. Another diverse array of impostors performs Dylan's music within the film, and some of them—including Cat Power, Yo La Tengo, My Morning Jacket, John Doe, Michelle Shocked, Dan Hicks, Al Kooper, and Joe Henry—will play Dylan again at a Nov. 7 concert at Manhattan's Beacon Theatre to benefit the nonprofit organizations 826 National and 826 Valencia.

  • Dwight Yoakam: "It was a relationship that was complicated and convoluted, which is my nature and Buck's. It was part friend, part sibling, and part parent. At various times it was hard to tell who was being the parent and who was being the child—most cases it was me the child and him the parent." Yoakam discusses his friendship with the late Buck Owens, and his new album, "Dwight Sings Buck."

  • Small, inexpensive, and easy to pick up, the ukulele is making a strong comeback as a starter instrument.

  • French actresses/singers Jane Birkin, Francoise Hardy, and Charlotte Gainsbourg talk to Vanity Fair about the main Frenchman in their respective lives, the "debauched, irreverent, misanthropic, crude, dissolute, provocateur, genius, alcoholic" singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg.

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