Word: binges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alan Cummings of Washington's WWDC was snowed under with requests for Mule Train; his listeners could not seem to hear it often enough. Early one morning last week, Cummings struck back: he began playing, one after the other, recordings of Mule Train as sung by Frankie Laine, Bing Crosby, Gordon MacRae, the Syncopators, Buzz Butler, Arthur Smith, Vaughn Monroe and Tennessee Ernie. Before long, the unrelieved barrage of whipcracks and clippity-clops jammed WWDC's switchboard with phone calls from desperate night owls crying "Uncle...
...rhythm (actually a good deal faster than a burro's), it sounded like a poor man's Riders in the Sky. And with the U.S. hungry for what the trade calls "oat" or "popcorn" songs, Lange was right about the hot hit. After Vaughn Monroe, Frankie Laine, Bing Crosby, et. al. had taken a ride on it, Mule Train last week was clippity-clopping out of every jukebox and radio right across the nation...
...last week, Theodora had more than 750 regular customers, including Humphrey Bogart, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. At $1.25 for a five-gallon bottle, Theodora sells 10,000 gallons a month in the Los Angeles area alone and sales are increasing at the rate of 1,000 gallons a month. Theodora is mapping plans to distribute the water over an eleven state Western area, hopes soon to tap a nationwide market. Says she: while the stuff is fine for children's teeth, "it also goes wonderful with Scotch...
Arriving in Manhattan to take over direction of the Metropolitan Opera next June, British Impresario Rudolf Bing told newsmen that the Met was "in excellent shape as far as vocal talent goes," but declined to be drawn out about its notoriously outdated scenery and production. Explained Bing: "It would be rather tactless of me to be critical...
Ichabod and Mr. Toad. In parts of an uneven doubleheader, Walt Disney is at his inventive best; with Bing Crosby and Basil Rathbone on the soundtrack (TIME...