Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHAT is the stock market going to do next? See BUSINESS. Best Bird Dog on the Street...
Meanwhile the ducks were nosing the foreign straw object with curiosity, while a collie dog ran up and down the shore barking. The swan boat changed course, pedaling full speed ahead towards the center of interest. "They're going to rescue my hat!" Jessie sighed in the tones of a movie heroine. And, indeed, the attendant was poking away the ducks with a pointed stick. After some sleight of boat and hand, he fished the hat out and proceeded on course...
...Mike did this spontaneous roll-out," explained the short, intense young man, "and there was something nasty in the music. I just blurted out, 'You ain't nuthin' but a hound dog,' and there it was." Hound Dog, as bawled by Elvis Presley, sold 5,000,000 records, enthroned Tunesmiths Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller as kings of the state of annoyance called rock 'n' roll. In all, their raucous inspirations have since sold 27 million records, and last week their latest, Charlie Brown, made its first million...
Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller began their career as amateur songwriters at Los Angeles City College, earned less than $2,000 apiece their first two years. Then, in 1952, they whelped Hound Dog in 20 minutes flat. "Originally, it was folk blues," says Leiber. "When Presley, shall we say, performed it, there was a misunderstanding of the original lyrics-it was designed to be sung by a girl." Adds Leiber: "The thing to remember is you're not writing a song but a record. What you gotta do is get these kids to identify. That...
...Shaggy Dog (Buena Vista) of the title is a real, live, winsome, mop-footed old English sheep dog named Chiffon (real name: Sam) that opens doors and dresser drawers, climbs ladders, sits commandingly at the wheel of a speeding car, and even gargles before going to bed at night (on the sound track, anyway). Unhappily, Producer Walt Disney tells his shaggy-dog story so doggedly that he soon runs it into the pound. The story: a Renaissance ring that has the power to put a human being into the body of an animal falls into the hands of a teen...