Odd lots

In this book (Great Pretenders: My Strange Love Affair with '50s Pop Music, by Karen Schoemer) from the library are interviews with and meditations upon the careers of Patti Page, Frankie Laine, Pat Boone, Georgia Gibbs, Tommy Sands, Fabian Forte, and Connie Francis. The best of these are Page, Laine, and Boone. I notice that people still fear the wrath of Dick Clark.