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...Bellboy! (Gloria Wood and Pete Candoli's Orchestra; Capitol). A surrealistic ballad in bop. The only words are the title, called out coaxingly, then petulantly, then desperately, and always answered with comic effect by a chime. In between, Songstress ' Wood noodles breathlessly along with the high clarinet, leaving the listener to imagine what it all means...
After an opening march, a soprano sang the mournful ballad. All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight, which was sung by both sides in the 1860s. Then came the chorus in The Bonnie Blue Flag, with the stirring lines rousingly flung...
Danny Kaye Entertains (Columbia LP). In addition to a soft and sweet version of the Irish ballad Molly Malone, Kaye sings six songs from the 1941 Broadway hit, Lady in the Dark, among them The Princess of Pure Delight, Jenny, Tchaikovsky. The last is Comic Kaye at his best, as he rattles off the jawbreaking names of four dozen Russian composers without fluffing...
Died. James Shelley Hamilton, 69, composer of the famed college ballad Lord Jeffrey Amherst, and pioneer Hollywood scriptwriter (The Perils of Pauline); of uremic poisoning; in Rutland...
Above all, Lehrer is a satirist, and his greatest talent lies in parodying the conventional run of popular numbers. He tweaks the sentimental home town, commemorating the kindly school master who sells French postal cards after class, and then jibes at the Irish Ballad, the love song, and cowboys' lament...