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...note your allusion to Senator George and SPCSCPG. If the presidency of same goes by priority,* may I call your attention to a ballad I printed in the old Bowling Green (Saturday Review of Literature) some time in 1927 or maybe 1928. I give you only one stanza: Obedient to the phobias of the regimented herd, To the dictates of the masses I have properly deferred: I always sent out Greeting Cards, and Mother's Day I kept, I never wore my panama beyond the 15th Sept...
Gene Autry is no stranger to radio. He twanged his first radio ballad over KVOO in Tulsa in 1928, for nothing. Hollywood tapped him in 1934 to start a movie career that no other hell-for-leather guitar plunker has ever equaled...
Darn That Dream (Tommy Dorsey; Victor). Mr. Dorsey does about as well by this de Lange ballad as Benny Good man did in the (late) show, Swingin' the Dream...
...part of a ballad...
...broadcasting code ("Yes, indeed, the Sex is frail. But the first time a woman is frail, she should be somewhat nice methinks, for then or never is the time to make her Fortune.") U. S. radio listeners found its gangster Captain Macheath, his moll Polly Peacham, and its other ballad-singing jailbirds as fetching as a trim ankle, its famed tunes as neat as a whistle. Sample...