1.   Blues singers do well in Ireland, as Celts have a feeling for Negro music.

2.   Before the song ends, the trim singer does a comical, shoulder-swiveling, hip-shaking routine.

3.   But rock singers do nothing but mix and match.

4.   Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Dole shared the cover of Newsweek, as did singer Melissa Etheridge and her lover Julie Cypher.

5.   How many singers can do that?

6.   I never had to change from mezzo to soprano and back again, and never ran into the kinds of problems so many young singers do.

7.   In the meantime, at least, for a lesson on the primacy of words in singing, opera singers would do well to hear Broderick.

8.   Italian singers did not, and Mariette fretted about how ridiculous their goatees and mustaches would appear beneath his meticulously researched headdresses.

9.   Jazz and popular singers do too, now that their repertory goes back at least a century.

10.   Rock singers do it.