Word: croonings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called The World's Largest Make-Believe Ballroom. It was simply a daily program of phonograph records, but the announcer made a great pretense of having, say, Jan Garber playing on Stage One, Paul Whiteman waiting his turn on Stage Two, Rudy Vallee in the wings, ready to croon. The announcer carried on one-sided conversations with the great names on the record labels, took listeners in their imagination to a Make-Believe Ballroom, far from any two-by-four radio studio...
...while Britain's tunesmiths tightened up their tom-toms, Britain's soldiers bull-doggishly continued to croon such old sweet favorites as Roses of Picardy, Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag and There's A Long, Long Trail, dusted off such hardtack tidbits...
...Hollywood, Radioldster Lee De Forest, inventor 31 years ago of the audion radio tube which made long-range broadcasting possible, celebrated his 65th birthday by telling reporters how little he thinks of broadcasting, 1938 style: "I seldom tune in. . . . The programs, all swing and croon, are not only poor, but the interruptions for commercial announcements are maddening. . . . Isn't it sickening? It isn't at all as I imagined it would...
COLLEGE students invariably at Hollywood's conceptions of then life, conceptions in which and saxophones play more important than textbooks, fraternity houses resemble royal suites at the Bitz and professors croon while leading the class in the latest dance rage...
...January, Love in Bloom and the songs Gladys Swarthout sang in Rose of the Rancho. When Paramount wants swing music, Mack Gordon and Harry Revel are set to work. Clowning at parties pleases them more. With little urging Gordon will hoist his 317 Ib. up onto a piano, coyly croon I Feel Like a Feather in the Breeze, the hit from Collegiate, for which Gordon and Revel wrote the score...