We All Scream For Ice Cream!

Fred Waring was recognised as one of the most outstanding and dynamic personalities in American show business and even if, as has sometimes been suggested, he made no mark on music history, he certainly knew what middle-America wanted. Millions tuned in to his radio and television shows to hear the lavish choral arrangements performed by the fabulous Glee Club, supported by a talented group of musicians known as The Pennsylvanians. His was the common man's approach. "We don't sing music," he told a New York Times reporter, "we sing songs.