| What a surprise it was to the placemen, the rank and file and the old men who crooned over the fires at the Carlton! |
| Not nearly as many as have crooned away to it at the kitchen sink of a Sunday morn as one of Steve Wright's love songs, I bet. |
| Listen closely, though, and you'll hear a history of American popular music, dressed down in ripped denim and wrinkled leather, and crooned in a thick Queens accent. |
| And, odd as it may seem, his voice was strikingly beautiful as he crooned that line. |
| The female singer crooned, and the audience didn't miss a note. |
| The little thing crooned deeply, and opened its mouth receptively to be fed. |
