Word: accompanimental
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
On sale at U.S. pop-record counters last week was a ten-inch number with an attached red sticker of warning: "The enclosed record is HORRIBLE." The label was an understatement. The tunes (Fish and There's a New Sound) offer some of the most nightmarish vocals of modern...
A local music promoter weighed Szabo's audience appeal, and decided that there might be a market for the Szabo voice. He dreamed up a new record label (Hammerlock), and recorded Szabo in two appropriate songs: Take Me in Your Arms and It's All in the Game...
Unhappy Day (Homer and Jethro; Victor). The inevitable riposte to that vulnerable hit, Oh Happy Day. In hollow tones, and with the accompaniment of tuba and guitar, the singer spells out his misery.
After some elder has hidden the effigy, village women and children brandishing sticks and kitchen knives search the villages, crying, "Qui bo' li?" (where is he hiding?). Then entire populations, including stiff-jointed ancients and bare-bottomed small fry, join in the Ra Ra processions that snake out into...
IN Nairobi's New Stanley Hotel, where His Excellency the Governor of Kenya, Sir Evelyn Baring, occasionally dines to the accompaniment of a brassy military band, a London correspondent growled: "If I opened my shirt and showed you my breastbone, you would see it was black and blue from...