“He is the kiddie crooner who hypnotizes them into blissfully oblivious states of mental inertia.”

“The former footballer, former manager, sometime TV pundit, and wannabe crooner also ran a greengrocer in Dagenham.”

“The 30-year old crooner was the oldest contestant in the sixth and last heat of the competition.”

“It emerged as an alternative to the sentimental pop songs of the early twentieth century and the polished crooners who sang them.”

“With the invention of the microphone came the crooners but people still sung, they sung in the church, they sung in the army.”

“There were singing people on the bus, crooners in backyards and I even hummed a note or two.”