Word: holding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hold-Tight...
...copy of this week's TIME [April 24], Radio section, you record the NBC ban on performance of Hold-Tight because the lyrics approximate Harlem's slang for sexual perversion...
First of all, none of the words used in the song . . . were intended to have any particular meaning. Last October, Jerry Brandow and Larry Kent, two comedian-dancers, played a "lick" for me to which the words "Hold-tight, hold-tight, hold-tight, hold-tight -want some seafood mama ! Shrimpers and rice, they're very nice" went. The two boys explained that they had heard the words and music either in a New York or Philadelphia night club where a colored band was playing. . . . We made a recording of the words and music to that point in a Broadway...
...result of the ban on the song, new lyrics were written, with the new writers now being cut in on the royalties. With the song a hit-and because so many people were connected with its composition -the various people are billed "writer of Hold-Tight" in the numerous places they work...
...entire upperclass group who tutor, 22 per cent received scholarships or hold outside jobs, 3 per cent lower than the Freshmen who tutor, received through the Student Employment Office. 29 per cent of the commuters who tutor hold scholarships, 12 per cent of those who live in boarding houses and who tutor receive scholarships...