Word: chantey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mourning Becomes Electra (RKO Radio). The eye glides like a skiff across the black, lurching waters of a New England harbor. The sound track blares the black, lurching music of the chantey, Shenandoah. And on the screen the dreadful, faintly ludicrous enginery of Eugene O'Neill's tragedy of incest lurches, and begins...
...lead the chorus through a variety of offerings, covering the whole scope of the year's Glee Club activities, which may range from sixteenth century motifs to modern pieces in the lighter vein. "Casey Jones," familiar American railroad ballad, and "Spanish Ladies," a rollicking arrangement of an English sea chantey, will highlight the latter category...
This salty chantey of a too-trusting maid and her love-'em-& -leave-'em sailor was a favorite barroom ballad of World War I. Wherever servicemen gathered, it was sung with gusto-provided no ladies were present...