Word: ding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brutal war it is, too, masterminded in the conference rooms of conglomerates and waged in the trenches where producers, promoters, distributors, program directors and disk jockeys all snap and claw at the big sound-dollar. The battle rages continually around one crucial question: Is it a hit (ding!) or a miss (thud)? Since only one record in 25 gets a serious shot at survival, the odds are long; simply to break even, a single must sell 25,000 copies, an album 85,000. But then it takes only a couple of hits to compensate for dozens of dogs. This...
...Dong Dang that the Japanese had begun their invasion of Indochina in 1940. At that time the French government fired off an urgent plea to Washington for help. But President Franklin Roosevelt fired back: "The United States will not go to war for any Ding Dong." An apocryphal story, surely, but one that summed up America's hands-off policy in Indochina for a few more years at least...
Oldtime Swing King Benny Goodman, playing a one-night stand with his band at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, was honored to receive one delighted Goodman fan backstage after the performance. "I was particularly thrilled when you played I'm a Ding Dong Daddy from Dumas," said U.S. Ambassador to France Arthur Watson. Whereupon the ambassador gave out with a vocal...
...ding dong daddy from Dumas
...ding dong papa from Harlem