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	Ethel Merman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ethel Merman (January 16, 1908 – February 15, 1984) was a star of stage and film musicals, well known for her incredible vocal range and diction, and comic acting (although she could do drama also).
		Merman retired from Broadway in 1970 when she appeared as the last Dolly Levi in Hello Dolly, a show initially written for her.
		After Merman was diagnosed with brain cancer in 1983, she collapsed and died several weeks following the surgery at the age of 76 in 1984; she had been planning to go to Los Angeles to appear at the Oscars that year.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ethel_Merman (947 words)

	Miss Carstairs and the Merman by Delia Sherman -- The Endicott Studio Journal of Mythic Arts, Summer 2003
		Day after day she gazed through the merman's eyes as if he were a living bathysphere, watching damselfish and barracuda stitch silver through the greenish antlers of elkhorn coral, observing the langorous unfurling of the Manta ray's wings and the pale groping fingers of hungry anemones.
		At first she thought the merman was hiding; only when she moved towards the pool did she notice that the floor of the conservatory was awash with water and that the door was ajar.
		The merman showed her a coral reef, bright and various, which seemed to grow as she watched, becoming more complex, more brilliant with each addition; then an image of herself standing knee-deep in the sea, watching the merman swim away from her.
	www.endicott-studio.com /jMA03Summer/merman.html (9712 words)

	Merman, Ethel on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Merman's theater debut was in Girl Crazy (1930).
		San Franciscans with a taste for choir singing suddenly have a choice: regular or Ethel.
		She had rhythm and was the top - Ethel Merman: 1908-1984.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/Merman-E1.asp (352 words)

	humanity.org - voices - merman_laughed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A merman is a dwarf that lives in the sea.
		The farmer was pleased and praised her, but drove his dog away with a blow when it came up with the wife to greet him.
		The merman answered: "Chewed and trodden iron must be used for the hooks, and the forging must be done where one can hear both river and wave, and the hooks must be tempered in the foam and sweat of tired horses.
	www.humanity.org /voices/folklore/mermaids/merman_laughed (669 words)

	Ethel Merman 101: A Brief Biography
		Merman was the only member of the Broadway cast to appear in the film version of Anything Goes (1936) co-starring with Bing Crosby.
		Merman and Lahr stopped the show with the bawdy "But in the Morning, No" and the popular hit "Friendship." Although the insecure Lahr was somewhat intimidated by Merman's strength, they made an effective team on stage.
		Merman's energy and undeniable talent made her a force of nature on stage.
	www.musicals101.com /mermbio.htm (1360 words)

	The 3 Belters : The Three Belters : The3Belters.com : Ethel Merman : Carol Channing : Judy Garland
		Merman had the task of carrying on as something more than a great performer – she had the burden of being a living Broadway legend in a world that was paying increasingly less attention to Broadway.Merman was surprisingly nonchalant about her talents.
		Merman's daughter Ethel had suffered from a series of emotional problems in the 1960s, but no one expected her death due to an overdose of prescribed medication in 1967.
		Merman was at home in her New York apartment when a sudden flash of pain left her incoherent and unable to walk in April of 1983.
	www.the3belters.com /ethel.html (4045 words)

	Merman and Martin Raise the Roof (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ethel Merman, born Ethel Agnes Zimmerman in Astoria, Queens, was all of 22 when she left a career in stenography to star in the Gershwins’ 1930 “Girl Crazy.” Her clarion C in “I Got Rhythm,” held for 16 measures of encore-demanding ecstasy, became one hallmark of her brash, riveting style.
		Merman seems to throw in one too many of her trademark grace notes in an attempt to light a fire under vocal chords that no longer spark as they used to.
		Merman on a bad night was still inimitable, but handsome John Raitt’s once-stirring voice had turned prosaically gruff.
	www.gaycitynews.com /gcn_352/mermanandmartinraise.html (1118 words)

	Broadway: The American Musical . Stars Over Broadway . Ethel Merman \| PBS
		Merman was the most successful musical comedy performer of her generation.
		Merman went to Hollywood in September 1933 and costarred with Bing Crosby in the film WE'RE NOT DRESSING, released in April 1934, and with Eddie Cantor in KID MILLIONS, released in November 1934.
		Merman enjoyed her longest-running musical with Irving Berlin's "Annie Get Your Gun" (N.Y., May 16, 1946), which played 1,147 performances; she stayed in it until it closed on Feb. 19, 1949.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/broadway/stars/merman_e.html (1155 words)

	What they're saying about ETHEL MERMAN'S BROADWAY!
		Certainly it must have crossed Merman’s mind that this was a manifestation of art mirroring life, but that fact was not reflected in her straightforward, no-frills performance.
		Merman’s iconic camp status was elevated to dizzying heights when she released an all-disco version of her hits that could be heard on dance floors in gay clubs worldwide.
		But like these other “originals”, Merman lives on not only in her recorded and filmed works, but by virtue of a current live show that pays worthy tribute to the greatness that made the legend and brings us a welcome first-hand taste of the talent and magic that was Ethel Merman.
	www.scottstander.com /04Ethel/Ereviews.html (3247 words)

	NPR : Novelty Reigns on Ethel Merman Revival CD
		Merman had been a star for 20 years when these Decca songs were recorded.
		Merman, the star of smash hits from "Annie Get Your Gun" to "Gypsy," went from working on the stage to working in the recording studio for the songs revived on Decca Broadway's new CD The World is Your Balloon.
		Merman was known for her powerful voice, perfect pitch and clear enunciation.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4798048&ft=1&f=1008 (367 words)

	CMT.com : Ethel Merman : Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Merman began singing as a child and entertained at military camps during World War I. She became a secretary after graduating from high school, but gradually built up a career singing in nightclubs and vaudeville.
		Merman concluded her exclusive contract with Decca by assembling the double-LP set A Musical Autobiography, which combined cast recordings with studio recordings from 1947 and 1955 of songs with which she was associated for a career overview.
		At 54, Merman was ready to give up the eight-show-a-week schedule of Broadway, and she returned to personal appearances for the first time since 1930, making her Las Vegas debut in October 1962, her show recorded for the Warner Bros. Records LP Merman in Vegas.
	www.cmt.com /artists/az/merman_ethel/bio.jhtml (1753 words)

	Orford Merman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The 'merman' was taken to Orford castle where the castle custodian, Bartholomew de Gladville, kept him prisoner.
		Bartholomew de Gladville became frustrated at the creature's silence and he had the merman tortured by hanging him upside down by his ankles.
		One day, some time after he was first captured, the merman was taken down to the harbour.
	hidden-england.netfirms.com /orford_merman.htm (439 words)

	Merman, Ethel
		Merman's triumphant Broadway debut was followed by an appearance in George White's Scandals (1931), in which her rendition of "Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries" became another hit.
		The apparently ageless first lady of the American musical comedy stage, Merman was noted for her unflagging humor only slightly less than for her brassy, strong, clear singing voice.
		During the 1950s and '60s Merman made numerous appearances on television as well as in nightclubs, and into the 1970s she continued to be a popular television guest star.
	search.eb.com /women/articles/Merman_Ethel.html (311 words)

	Encyclopedia: Ethel Merman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ethel Merman (January 16, 1908 - February 15, 1984) was a star of stage and film musicals, well known for her incredible vocal range and diction, and comic acting (although she could do drama also).
		What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater.
		Jump to: navigation, search 1952 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ethel-Merman (3854 words)

	Klea Blackhurst : press: Ethel Merman: The Clarion Call
		Or, to further personalize the matter, why is Ethel Merman, one of the most distinctive female singers of the 20th century, now viewed by many as perhaps the uncoolest singer ever, simply because she sang with a natural power and sheen that today seem the antithesis of contemporary pop style?
		Carey, though, Merman's vocal talent was fearlessly idiosyncratic, an unabashed expression of her boisterous personality, as was her exuberance.
		One young singer who has studied Merman closely and comprehends the subtleties of her seeming contradictions is the cabaret artist Klea Blackhurst.
	www.kleablackhurst.com /press/press_nyt010602.html (753 words)

	Ethel Merman's Broadway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Merman's legendary voice is easily recognizable, somewhere between a foghorn and a siren -- always with the volume ratcheted up.
		As for Merman's personal life, it was something of a mess: four failed marriages (including a brief stint with Ernest Borgnine) and a daughter who died of an overdose.
		Still, McKenzie as Merman doesn't dwell on the past as she wows and overwhelms us with "Some People," "I Had a Dream" and "Everything's Coming Up Roses," also from "Gypsy," the ultimate story of a showbiz mother with ambition and chutzpah who is still something of a den mother.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/reviews/review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000790341 (529 words)

	Ethel Merman -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Another type of song Merman made famous were counterpoint songs provided for her by Irving Berlin.
		Merman sang "Anything You Can Do" with Ray Middleton in "Annie Get Your Gun" and "You're Just in Love" with Russell Nype in "Call Me Madam." In "Call Me Madam", Merman won the 1950 Best Actress Tony Award for her performance as Sally Adams.
		Merman's ultimate performance was as Rose in Arthur Laurent's "Gypsy" where she played Gypsy Rose Lee's mother.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/et/ethel_merman.htm (952 words)

	Merman, Feegee Mermaid. Roadside America
		The Merman is displayed indoors, in a glass-sided box among a sprinkling of mounted deer heads and stuffed sea turtles.
		The first "merman" known in America was purchased from Japanese sailors in 1822 (mermen were apparently "ritualistic objects" of Japanese and Indonesian origin).
		P.T. Barnum purchased his first merman in 1842 and put it on exhibit as the "Feejee Mermaid." It was an immediate sensation.
	www.roadsideamerica.com /meraves.html (476 words)

	Ethel Merman Disco Album (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ethel Merman was good in the 70s i remember her well now ive got the internet i can hear her all the time.
		I got to see and meet in the 70,s and know that she was very proud of making this recording and had a truly wondreful sprit to keep performing and up with the times hat off to you ethel one more time.
		And Ethel merman is one of the very few to have been so distremental enough to have worked hard for her triliatric fans who loved her through the years.
	www.franklarosa.com /vinyl/Exhibit.jsp?AlbumID=78 (958 words)

	Singer evokes classic Ethel / Blackhurst tribute honors Merman sound and sass (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		When it comes to loving Ethel Merman, an idol the Salt Lake City native never saw or heard in the flesh but adored from first cast album on, she just didn't have a choice.
		Merman could coo and caper as well as belt, which Blackhurst faithfully shows in a 90-minute tour of the star's 13 Broadway shows.
		In a voice that evokes the Merman sound without straining to mimic it, she begins where Merman did -- with her star-making "I Got Rhythm" in the Gershwin brothers' "Girl Grazy." Songs by Cole Porter figure importantly in the song list and medleys -- Merman appeared in five of his shows.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/08/29/DD110911.DTL (642 words)

	Merman
		You were given free access to the "Merman" sound clip if you pre-ordered "from the choirgirl hotel" from a Towers Record store or their web site.
		Then on June 15, 1999, "Merman" was one of the tracks on a compilation benefit album from Epic Records called "No Boundaries." The album benefits the people of Kosovo who were displaced during the 1999 conflict in Yugoslavia.
		Well the song is obviously about her miscarriage with merman being a reference to the state of a three month old fetus (gills and webbed feet) and in many interviews she has talked about calling back the spirit of her child...Anyways i will give you my lyrics, they aren't that different.
	www.thedent.com /merman.html (1327 words)

	Playbill Features: ON THE RECORD: More Merman and More Pimpernel
		After Merman's death in 1984, Merman's son Robert Levitt entrusted them to a fellow named Stephen Cole, who has now -- with the permission of Levitt -- brought us the first of a projected three volumes of "Her Private Recordings." Volume One contains voice-and-piano recordings from about 1957 onward.
		Merman's other two final Broadway shows are also represented.
		Fans of Merman who are highly familiar with her existing body of recordings will certainly be struck by "Mermania!;" it's the same voice, of course, but you hear her experimenting with songs you never heard her sing (including "But Not For Me," one of the hits from the Gershwins's Girl Crazy which Ginger Rogers introduced).
	www.playbill.com /features/article/66100.html (1127 words)

	Rescuing Ethel Merman / Mountain Xpress / Asheville, NC
		Ethel Merman is a victim of Bloated-Elvis Syndrome.
		It is Merman's role in the evolution of the genre that Blackhurst explores in her show.
		Her voice is solid, somewhat rounder and less strident than Merman's, and while it may not possess that "can-you-hear-me-in-the-cheap-seats" volume, her delivery lacks nothing in verve.
	www.mountainx.com /ae/2003/0528blackhurst.php (1028 words)

	Amazon.com: The Ethel Merman Disco Album: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Rumor has it that Merman couldn't stand the disco craze that was sweeping the nation in the late '70s, recording her vocals before the instrumental tracks were laid down.
		Merman (at her most bombastic, vibrato-laden) barrels through eight of her signature tunes.
		Merman apparently recorded her vocals separately with a piano accompaniment and her vocals were then mixed into the disco arrangements.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000084TTG?v=glance (1277 words)

	Playbill News: ON THE RECORD: Ethel Merman's "Balloon" and Bashville
		We have become so used to CD releases of latter-day Merman — recordings made in the "Granny Get Your Gun" days, when Ethel was in her sixties and seventies — that one can't help but being hesitant at the arrival of yet another.
		Here is Ethel in her prime, or at least at the far end of her prime; 12 of the 20 tracks were recorded by the 42-year old Merman before she undertook Call Me Madam, with the rest recorded during that show's run.
		Merman was not in contention for the title role of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, but she gives suitable renditions of Lorelei's two song hits, "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" and "A Little Girl from Little Rock." Yes, folks, Ethel knows how to deliver a comedy lyric.
	www.playbill.com /news/article/95128.html (1086 words)

	Pals of the Merman. Roadside America
		AAF's Merman is one of the largest of the breed.
		When the last family member died in 1985, the museum raised $250 in donations and bought the merman.
		Canada's Merman has been a popular exhibit at the Indian Trading Post for over 100 years.
	www.roadsideamerica.com /merpals.html (481 words)

	~About Mermen~ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Once angered a Merman is a terrible foe to have, as they will hold grudges for incredibly long times.
		Just like Mermaids, a Merman's voice is capable of entrancing even the strongest willed of mortals, but tend to have less interest in humans.
		The way to a merman's heart is through his stomach.
	members.cox.net /mysticmermaid/mm3 (310 words)

	Ethel Merman Ethel Merman Disco Album DiscoMusic.com
		A few years before her death, legendary Broadway vocalist Ethel Merman released an album of Disco-ized Broadway classics on the A and M label in 1979.
		THE ETHEL MERMAN DISCO ALBUM, complete with a festive disco beat and a cooing back-up chorus, was an instant camp classic when it was released by A and M Records in 1979.
		Her concerts, according to her official bio, “invariably start with a standing ovation and end in pandemonium.” When she passed away of natural causes in 1984, the marquees of all 36 Broadway theaters were darkened for one minute.
	www.discomusic.com /cds-more/999_0_3_0_M (587 words)

	Ethel Merman 101
		But Ethel Merman's view of her ability to knock 'em dead every time was quite down to earth – "What's so remarkable about that?
		It's my job, isn't it?" Job or not, when she planted herself center stage and belted notes out to the balcony, audiences and critics acclaimed her as the undisputed First Lady of the musical comedy stage.
		Thanks to a few effective film roles, Merman's name is still remembered today, but her legend was built and maintained on the Broadway stage.
	www.musicals101.com /merman.htm (121 words)

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