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Word: gimmickless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week Georgia Gibbs, determined to be just "a meat and potatoes girl," was picking up a handsome payoff. Her gimmickless Mercury recording of Kiss of Fire had sold well over 1,000,000 copies, was one of the summer's big hits. She was as surprised as anybody, but there was no doubt about her success: nightclub crowds demand the song in every show; song pluggers dog her footsteps. And another Gibbs record, So Madly in Love, is laddering up the bestseller lists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: From the Shoulder | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

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