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Word: gotta (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wove its low melodic line against the woodsy, paper-dry clarinet sound, the guitar attacked as solo rather than rhythm instrument. Sometimes Jimmy had five instruments (he played tenor and baritone sax and clarinet) shuttling in a complicated web of converging and diverging solo sounds. Of his own compositions, Gotta Dance proved to be a happy, hopping number marked by the husky noodling of Giuffre's sax. The Train and the River opened with the rhythm of a not-too-express train, only to jump the rails and lose itself by a pleasant riverbank. When Jimmy and the boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Chamber Jazz | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

...personalities and incidents concerning all but the two main characters are submerged in the usual modernized cowboy-and-Indian routine, punctuated with moral statements such as "A man has gotta fight for what he believes in" and the like...

Author: By Gerald E. Bunker, | Title: For Whom the Bell Tolls | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

...NEWSWEEK ED.: Easter's coming up. We've gotta have an Easter Feature...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: Newsweek's 'Religion in Our Colleges' | 4/24/1957 | See Source »

...impressive facet of the show, aside from its general high spirits, is the superlative choreography of Bob Fosse. Particularly impressive are the routines "Shoeless Joe from Hannibal, Mo." and "Who's Got the Pain?" The lyrics and music are gay and spritely, never flat and sometimes very winning. "You Gotta Have Heart" and "Two Lost Souls" are the most appealing products of Messrs. Adler and Ross's song-smithing. The singing is generally good and Gary Cockell, Howard Krieger, and Roger Franklin's raucous rendition of "You Gotta Have Heart" brings down the house...

Author: By Gerald E. Bunker, | Title: Damn Yankees | 3/28/1957 | See Source »

...Ilka Chase (the cruel stepmother), "it's a shame to spend so much time for just one 1½-hour show." Said Edith (Daisy Mae) Adams, the Fairy Godmother: "Why, Ed Sullivan has just one full rehearsal and you NEVER know-where you are." She twirled a baton-"Gotta get in shape with my magic wand" -then skipped off to sing her one number, Impossible ("for a plain yellow pumpkin to become a golden carriage, for a plain country bumpkin and a prince to join in marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Rear View | 3/25/1957 | See Source »

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