On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:50:44 -0700,
"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote:
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>Hatunen wrote:
>> On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:59:07 -0700,
>> "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote:
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>>>You don't think performers think about such things? (We're
>>>talking the pre-computerized late 1950's, 1960's, when info
>>>on theater marquees was still hand-set, using a finite
>>>number of letter sizes.) Quite a few "stage names" were
>>>created with that precept in mind - i.e. "the bigger the
>>>better" - not just opera singers'.
>>
>>
>> One wonders why Arnold Dorsey chose the professional name
>> "Englebert Humperdinck", especially since the name was already
>> sort of famous.
>
>You answered your own question, I think! ;-)
I don't think so. The name *wasn't* famous among those who buy
pop music.
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