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• n  singing in a soft low tone
  her crooning soon put the child to sleep
• n  the act of singing popular songs in a sentimental manner
• v  sing softly

• Ignoring the sounds of sirens, drunken crooning and breaking glass outside, Hidetoshi Seki, Takashi Kudo and Yuji Yano huddle in a tiny room just big enough for a table for four .
• Since the 1990s, popular Mexican singers have been increasingly crooning about Kalashnikovs and cocaine alongside their traditional ballads of hard work and lost love.
• A YouTube alternative for an in-crowd of comedians and actors, Funny Or Die features the likes of Jimmy Fallon crooning "Car Wash for Peace" ("put down those guns, pick up a sponge .

• croon

News & Articles

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• WATCH: Ciara Gets Served a Lawsuit While Performing on Stage
  Let's say you're a top R&B singer ( Ciara ) who's set to appear at a Friday night event at a gay bar in West Hollywood (The Factory), but due to contractual reasons you cancel on the nightclub and don't appear at all. The next day, you show up at an LA Pride event to sing your heart out because that's what singers do. But then, while all your smooth crooning and sultry dance moves are going down ...
  June 10, 2013 - Zimbio
• CMT Awards Turn Into Date Night for the Stars … Sort of
  It was date night for the stars at the CMT Awards in Nashville on Wednesday! Our favorite celebrity duos stepped out to the event, all looking amazing and definitely did not disappoint. Kristen Bell, who co-hosted the show, and Dax Shepard made their first red carpet appearance together since welcoming daughter Lincoln back in March. Country crooning hottie Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman seemed ...
  June 6, 2013 - omg! Celeb News via omg!

Quotes

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• Chris Cornell in New York Post
  I decided that I was going to sing it like Tom Jones, in that crooning style. I wanted people to hear my voice,Cornell says. "And 'Live and Let Die' is a fantastic song. Paul McCartney wouldn't have written it if not for that movie. I...
• Mark Wilson in The Age
  Everyone who has covered the song has brought something different to it,Wilson said. "O'Keefe's version was straight-up rockabilly, Albert Lee did a surf thing, Iggy's was an electro-crooning vocal version. We did a few versions before...
• Spencer Krug in Exclaim!
  I don't have anything in common with [Dan] musically,says Krug. "It's his lyrics that get me, and the way he delivers them in his heartfelt crooning style. I don't think there are many songwriters who are poets, for lack of a better word....