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...Reuther determined to take the play away from Lyndon. He announced his own strong support for Stevenson, then persuaded Michigan's governor and favorite son, G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, to go to work. Striding from hotel room to hotel room, his lanky form trademarked by his green polka-dot bow tie, Williams checked with leaders from Ohio, Minnesota, Kansas and New Jersey. "I checked the figures myself," said Soapy. "I couldn't see how Harriman could win." Late Tuesday night, Williams called his 44-vote delegation into a chokingly smoke-filled caucus room. The delegation's sentiment...
...Almost Lost My Mind (Pat Boone; Dot). A winning voice that can make even the most inane lyrics acceptable. Boone gives the blues−about his lost love−a swooping hillbilly flavor...
Tell Me Why (Gale Storm; Dot). One of those concoctions that bear the inscrutable features of a hit. This one may have a pretty tune−with words about the mysteries of loving and leaving−but a listener would never know; Songstress Storm's voice skitters around it, slides under it, swoops past it, does everything but sing it straight...
...that kids could no longer dance to it-and jazz headed farther out. Rock 'n' roll got its name, as it got some of its lyrics, from Negro popular music, which used "rock" and "roll" as sexy euphemisms. It caught on with the small record companies, e.g., Dot, King, Sun, that flourish in the Southern, Central and Western states, and soon it grew too big for the majors to ignore. Strangely enough, a group of nonmusicians became the objects of teen-age adulation-the rock-'n'-roll disk jockeys such as Manhattan's Alan Freed...
Ivory Tower (Gale Storm; Dot). Another waltz in the rinky-dink style that seems to go with the rock-'n'-roll idiom. The simple-minded but bestselling message: "It's cold, so cold, in your ivory tower, and warm, so warm in my arms...