Word: canciones
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gene McDonald credits his pretty composer-wife, Inez Riddle McDonald (Romance, Cancion), for WWZR's lofty standards. Certainly the block-jawed Commander, now 55, gave little time to music in the old days. Until he was 41, he had no time for marriage. He led a swashbuckling, lickety-split life that might have exhausted even such stalwarts as Humphrey Bogart and Douglas MacArthur, both of whom the Commander resembles...
...event of considerable importance to the juke boxes of the U.S. Southwest occurred last week when Decca recorded Ramon Armengod, Mexico's Bing Crosby, singing Amor, Amor, Amor, Mexico's "new song." It is a cancion bolero with a lovely, lazy melody and a fetching Franz Lehar swipe at the end of the middle part, and Senor Armengod has the voice to sing it bravely. But Amor, Amor, Amor is not new. It has been played south of the Bravo (Rio Grande to Yanquis) for several years. It is called new by Mexicans because, with the fierce competition...
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