Besides, we didn't audition him with his clothes off".
Auditioning him on the spot, Mr. Willcocks immediately offered him a place at the Royal College.
We auditioned him, and he quickly became an important part of the new-music scene".
So I said, "Right, OK, you can be the singer then". We didn't even audition him.
"Paul Newman is a handsome boy, but quite stiff, to my disappointment," film-maker Fred Zinnemann said of him after auditioning him for a production of Oklahoma!
But he wanted to do something different, and after I auditioned him, he felt like the right one".
Tantalized by the Internet attention, USA Today wrote about Mr. Portman and "Late Show With David Letterman" auditioned him as a guest (he wasn't picked).
Casting about, Wills found the man who had auditioned him in 1930, Stricklin, and offered him a whopping $30 a week.
Impressed by the young man's raw force and by the vivid lyrics of his songs, Hammond auditioned him and immediately signed him to a recording contract.
He began his career in Detroit, where Herman Lubinsky, the owner of Savoy Records, heard him at a nightclub and sent the producer Teddy Reig to audition him.
