Word: dum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dum Du Dum Dum...
...March 15 cover of TIME shows four bullets with "Dum Du Dum Dum" written over them to represent the classic Dragnet theme. If these were drawn, as I suspect, to represent dumdum bullets, I credit the artist, Boris Chaliapin, with the finest pun TIME has made in quite a while...
...story of criminal investigation could be factual, instructive and entertaining. Webb has apparently achieved one of these objectives, that of entertainment in a low key (dum du dum dum...
...musical background to Jack Webb's picture on TIME'S cover ... is decidedly clever but proves once more that few artists know how to read notes. Assuming that the notation of the "dum du dum dum" theme is in the bass clef (which is not indicated), the tones would be in major key instead of the intended minor, unless a flat sign were placed in front of the note B. It would have been quite easy to get along without any such "accidental" by simply putting the theme into the key of A minor instead of G minor...
...show's top rating, however, is an inadequate gauge of the spell which Webb has cast over the U.S. people, both young and old. There is hardly a child above the age of four who does not know and constantly voice the brassy notes (dum du dum dum) of Dragnet's theme music. Phonograph records (St. George & the Dragonet, Little Blue Riding Hood, Christmas Dragnet) which parody Dragnet's terse, low-keyed dialogue have sold 1,326,000 copies, and Sergeant Friday's calm "All we want are the facts, ma'am" has become...