Word: drum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...borrowed the tune of a Rabelaisian old ditty called The Tailor's Boy, and given it new lyrics. The teaser: Grean's storytelling lyrics never do specify what "the thing" is; they just pause while Singer Phil Harris suggestively waits for three resounding booms of the bass drum. Sample...
What in the world was the thing? Pop music fans didn't care, so long as they could come in with the bass drum...
Head Drillmaster Gordon D. Henderson '51 said last night that band members did not discover the rain's damage until drill practice Wednesday. Soon after, the Band's truck carried to repair shops 15 clarinets with cracked necks, four tubas with rusted valves, three snare drums and one bass drum with broken cowhides, and several damaged saxophones and piccolos...
Radcliffe Student Council yesterday announced the chairmen of committees of take charge of the annex's annual "Drum-beats and Song" concert, scheduled for early in March...
...annual Boston-Syracuse football game needed for greater class, a special B.U. committee had decided, was a nice trophy-something like the Michigan-Minnesota little brown jug or the Indiana-Purdue old oaken bucket. The committee considered and discarded the notion of a totem pole or a big bass drum. Finally someone suggested an oldtime Boston bean pot. Bright B.U. Publicity-man George Wood took over from there...