Word: chant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Then the chant changed to: "We want Stokowski!" The dapper conductor tripped across the stage. Shouted the tank corps: "He needs a haircut...
Later Johnny wrote I'm an Old Cowhand, On Behalf of the Visiting Firemen, Jeepers Creepers, Lazy Bones and Skylark. With half the U.S. mumbling his 42nd-Street plain chant in its sleep, Mercer moved on to Hollywood. Blues in the Night, written for a Warner Brothers musical, sold over a million copies. By last week another Mercer opus. Strip Polka (for which the versatile Johnny had written the tune as well as the words), was No. 2 on Variety's list of bestsellers. Its homely refrain...
...store windows are full of bargains and all day long radio announcers chant of good buys. Bars are booming. Bookies are coining money. Streets are literally packed, mostly with women who obviously have seen much worse times, leading two or three kids and all of them loaded down with packages...
...show. This tiny drumming, at first almost inaudible, mounts and swells, is repeated twelve times in a continuous twelve-minute crescendo. The theme is not developed but simply grows in volume like Ravel's Boléro; it is succeeded by a slow melodic passage that suggests a chant for the war's dead...
Keep Smilin' (John Kirby; Victor). A primitive, mournful chant to the words "Let's keep laughing, let's be happy...