Word: cantors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Great Day (Sat. 2 p.m., NBC). Comedian Eddie Cantor, back from Europe, reporting on the Marshall Plan...
Dick Whiting tunes made famous by such stars as Nora Bayes, Maurice Chevalier and Eddie Cantor. By the time she was 14, Family Friend Johnny Mercer decided that Margaret's velvety voice was good enough for a guest spot on his radio show. By 1941, 17-year-old Maggie had struck out on her own, got on Lucky Strike's Your Hit Parade. But her sweet and slow singing did not please irascible Tobacco Huckster George Washington Hill, who "liked 'em loud and fast." She was fired after four weeks...
...cantor chanted the blessing of the wine and drank deeply from the silver goblet, one young woman whispered to her companion: "And that's real wine...
...Great Pain." He had gotten invitations to other bicentennial Bach festivals in Europe and the U.S. Among them: bids to play in Strasbourg with the great Bach organist, Albert Schweitzer, and in Leipzig's venerable Thomas-Kirche, where Bach himself had been cantor. He had turned them all down, although "It gave me great pain to refuse...
...first songs Sammy Fain sent to a publisher came back fast. But that didn't stop Sammy. Ever since he could remember, he had wanted to be a songwriter. The son of a cantor, he was just out of his teens and full of pep. "I felt I hadda sell my songs in person. So I went to New York personally...