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Barry Wood〔According to a 1941 article in ''Time'' magazine, his birth name was "Lou Rapaport". ("Berlin-Washington Axis" ), ''TIME'', June 23, 1941. Note, however, that his brother Barney Rapp's birthname is generally given with the spelling "Rappaport".〕 (February 12, 1909 - July 19, 1970) was an American singer and television producer. He is best known for being Frank Sinatra's immediate predecessor as the lead male vocalist on the long running NBC radio program ''Your Hit Parade''.〔Will Friedwald, ''Sinatra! The Song Is You: A Singer's Art'' (Da Capo Press, 1997), ISBN 978-0-306-80742-8, pp. 127-128 & n.3 ((excerpt available ) at Google Books).〕 Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Wood was the younger brother of bandleader Barney Rapp.〔William F. Lee, ''American Big Bands'' (Hal Leonard Corporation, 2005), ISBN 978-0-634-08054-8, p. 73 ((excerpt available ) at Google Books).〕 He attended Yale (where he swam and played water polo).〔("Berlin-Washington Axis" ), ''TIME'', June 23, 1941.〕 He was a sideman for Buddy Rogers's band.〔Lee, p. 122 ((excerpt available ) at Google Books).〕 He left Rogers to become a singer, and he eventually signed on at ''Your Hit Parade'', where he maintained his popularity for several years and was promoted as the nation's "sweater boy" (a counterpart to the sweater girl pin-ups popular in the World War II era).〔 Wood was identified with several popular wartime songs. In 1941 he introduced and recorded Irving Berlin's "Any Bonds Today?" and "Arms for the Love of America".〔 In 1942, recording as Barry Wood and the Wood Nymphs, he had a hit with "We Did It Before (And We Can Do It Again)", written by Charles Tobias and Cliff Friend; this song became a popular wartime anthem, and was later used in a number of Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoons.〔M. Paul Holsinger, ''War and American popular culture: A Historical Encyclopedia'' (Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999), ISBN 978-0-313-29908-7, p.329 ((excerpt available ) at Google Books).〕 Another notable song he recorded for a war bond drive was called "Ev'rybody Ev'ry Payday", written by Tom Adair and Dick Uhl, and heavily promoted by the radio division of the United States Treasury to encourage workers to purchase bonds through payroll deductions.〔Kathleen E.R. Smith, ''God bless America: Tin Pan Alley goes to war'' (University Press of Kentucky, 2003), ISBN 978-0-8131-2256-4, p.45 ((excerpt available ) at Google Books).〕〔''Billboard'', November 14, 1942, (p.62 )''.〕 According to music critic Will Friedwald, Wood had "an interesting voice, gray and appropriately woody", and a "sort of robust charm", but "his super-stiff rhythm makes him tough to listen to today."〔 Sinatra replaced Wood on ''Your Hit Parade'' in 1943. Wood had his own show on NBC from 1943 to 1945, first called ''The Million Dollar Band'' and then (with Patsy Kelly as co-star) the ''Palmolive Party''.〔John Dunning, ''On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio'' (Oxford University Press US, rev. ed. 1998), ISBN 978-0-19-507678-3 ((excerpt available ) at Google Books).〕 In 1948, his quarter-hour radio program, ''Barry Wood Show'', was syndicated by Frederick Ziv via electrical transcription. He later became a television producer.〔 His producing credits included Kate Smith's show, ''Wide Wide World'', and ''The Bell Telephone Hour''. He died in Miami Beach, Florida in 1970.〔("Birth of a Baby" ), ''TIME'', March 5, 1956.〕〔(Obituary for Barry Wood ), ''TIME'', August 3, 1970.〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Barry Wood (singer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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