Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...born in Bloody Harlan County, and it saddens me to hear that it has fallen on bad times...
...hear all kinds of things about Tom Lehrer. In prep school, where everybody who has a brother at Harvard also has his record, you hear about how he got kicked out for criticizing the Administration. Some people will tell you he's a Communist, others think he was a professor of some prominence who was too much of a light-hearted roue to stay within the academic confines of Cambridge...
...stuff appeals to a certain minority audience--educated, intelectual people, I suppose--and if they're not there, the performance that night gets a poor response. That's why I prefer concerts to night clubs. When somebody is willing to lay out money for tickets to hear me, I know they're interested. Almost anybody is likely to wander into a night club, though, and they may not be in tune with my 'great artistry...
...found "no production, no stocks, only five workers standing around with their arms folded." Under pressure. Belle sold out his interests, but he still made a profit. His assets mostly liquid again (partly in U.S. $500 bills), Belle declared that he was ready for further opportunity. "If you hear of any little industry selling out cheap," he told friends, "let me know. I've got money I don't know what to do with...
...cover himself, Lieberson pushed Columbia's lead in LP recordings, put out the recording of South Pacific that was a milestone in the popularity of recorded musicals. He expanded the recording frontier to include such non-musical offerings as the I Can Hear It Now series (more than 500,000 albums sold), founded the Columbia LP Record Club, the nation's first and now its biggest (more than 1,000,000 members) record club. When the stage production of My Fair Lady was searching for a backer, Lieberson persuaded Columbia Broadcasting System, owner of Columbia Records...