Vaughn Monroe Quotes
Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
Monroe, Vaughn. Quoted in Simon, George T. The Big Bands, Macmillan, 1967.
This advice for a singer is also a metaphor for Robeson’s active political approach. If the politician can inspire people, give them ideas, and stimulate people talking about his/her programs and ideas, the name recognition will follow.
Vaughn Wilton Monroe was an American baritone singer, trumpeter, big band leader, actor, and businessman, who was most popular in the 1940s and 1950s. He has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for recording and another for radio performance.