1.   And Ms. Horne added that in her experience singers sang best in their own language.

2.   All he wanted to know was whether the singer on his tape was singing in English.

3.   But writers write for the same reason singers sing and dancers dance.

4.   Good singers have been singing his songs for years, like Blossom Dearie and Rosemary Clooney.

5.   In those days, singers not only sang, but they also projected their voices.

6.   Onstage at the club one recent night, blues singer Ruby Wilson sings praises to the King.

7.   Sledge and Chandler reached the peaks of their sets on their knees, and the other male singers sang about the loneliness and misery of unrequited love.

8.   Singers sing more communicatively when they know that listeners understand what they are singing about.

9.   Still, where a singer can sing her own songs on a permanent document like an LP or a CD, there is always hope.

10.   The scrolling libretto on my copy went out of sync several times, making it briefly impossible to read what the singers were singing.