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Word: cryin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well! all is well!" Next evening in a modernistic gymnasium, they stood scrubbed and friendly before 3,000 paying customers. Thunderous applause greeted the Battle Hymn of the Republic. After that, the choir ran through its religious repertory, from a semi-spiritual (Listen to the Lambs All A-Cryin') to Bach, Beethoven and Mendelssohn. The audience demanded six encores. One choir rehearsal became a concert for 2,000 refugees from Germany's Soviet zone, who were moved to tears. Wrote Berlin's Telegraf: "This was not only music, but the building of a human bridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: From the Tabernacle | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

Missing in most new, dehydrated record versions was old Lead Belly's closing verse, moaned by "de man," Lead Belly used to explain, "wid his head hung down, cryin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Good Night, Irene | 8/14/1950 | See Source »

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