Grant got sentimental and sang 'You'll Never Walk Alone' to Sharon.
He also popularized the cancion ranchera, a sentimental song sung in waltz tempo.
Last week Mr. Williams himself showed up to wax sentimental and sing his love song to a frog, "Rainbow Connection".
He absorbed musical influences from the popular, sentimental songs sung by his sisters; from black church services he attended with the family's servant Olivia Pise; from popular minstrel show songs; and from songs sung by black labourers at the Pittsburgh warehouse where he worked for a time.
But at this point, Cumming had been so successful in establishing a connection with the audience – sharing stories of his most emotionally harrowing moments and singing sentimental tunes to match – that this ribbing was received as one would a barb from a notoriously mischievous friend.
He began performing part-time as Master Stanley Holloway – The Wonderful Boy Soprano from 1904, singing sentimental songs such as "The Lost Chord".
Cernat believes that the first Dadaist performance took place as early as February, when the nineteen-year-old Tzara, wearing a monocle, entered the Cabaret Voltaire stage singing sentimental melodies and handing paper wads to his "scandalized spectators", leaving the stage to allow room for masked actors on stilts, and returning in clown attire.
Years later he recalled, "It's not hard to win when you are a boy soprano singing a sentimental song in tattered clothes with a half-starved dog".
Lyrically, "Mi Novia Se Me Esta Poniendo Vieja" revolves around how a son looks at their mother from a sentimental perspective, with Arjona singing "She loves me either if i gor as a guerrilla, or I won the Nobel Prize for Peace / She does't care if i'm last or first, if i'm going as a conformist or as tenacious".
"Listening to Nat Cole prompted me to sing sentimental songs with distinct diction," he said at Blueberry Hill.
There are too many saccharine moments in which the characters sing sentimental rhymed couplets ("Let the days go by/Let the seasons fly") to music of cloying lyricism.
