Word: accordionists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slower here; pedestrians wait for the signal light before crossing. Steinway, a commercial street in the working-class area, could pass for the main avenue of a decaying Middle West town. On this stage, all parts of the overture sound simultaneously: an ersatz locomotive clangs and toots; an accordionist squeezes out The Sidewalks of New York; a sound truck emits the appropriately upbeat Buckle Down Winsocki...
...brought along their own touch of music-hall gaiety. George Bernard Shaw loved them. So did Actor Charles Laughton, who used to gather a group around him in their favorite pub, the Black Swan, and buy them sandwiches and a barrel of beer. Buskers basically are drifters, as Accordionist Tony Turco admits: "You have got to be a performer or else you are nothing but a disguised beggar...
...YORK PHILHARMONIC YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONCERTS WITH LEONARD BERNSTEIN (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). In his eighth annual Young Performers program, Lenny introduces seven young soloists-two violinists, a cellist, bassoonist, accordionist, oboist and basso...
...States, but in Viet Nam he pulls $1,000 a week. Margee McGlory, a Negro pop, blues and jazz singer who does a fair imitation of Eartha Kitt, makes only $300 a week, but that is more than she was able to earn at home. Oliver Pacini, an accordionist who has spent years playing small dates in and around San Francisco, earns $150-$200 a show and is extremely popular because of his nostalgic sing-alongs...
...orange-shirted and the women are orange-skirted, and each uniform is stamped BAGWELL FOR GOVERNOR in black. (Highly visible orange and black are "this year's colors" for campaigners, so a Madison Avenue firm advised.) They wave orange balloons and they pass out orange matchbooks. An accordionist plays When the Saints Go Marching In or Show Me the Way to go Home-depending upon whether the workers are coming or going. Three Negro campaigners take on the Negroes among the plant workers. In the center of it all stands a jaunty, greying, middle-sized man, his left hand...