singsong

Once in jail he had to “share a bath with a bloke who was in for murder,” organizing “singsongs with other prisoners” until his lawyers arranged for his release.

“When I think about things, I kind of convert them into cartoon characters,” explained Shilling in her cheerful, singsong voice.

I’d never heard a voice like hers — singsong, expressive, yet controlled.

While Lindhome solo retains her trademark singsong, sweet-and-sour delivery, the themes within her work have deepened to reflect a more complicated stage of life.

But its pièce de résistance for Roffman was Caselotti herself, who was home that afternoon and happy to entertain strangers with her cherubic singsong cadence.