Word: lamentations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suicide. After this selection, a former African missionary made ecstatic comments, "If angels can sing as well as that, I'm going to heaven--how about you?" There were shouts of "Yes, Oh Yes Jesus" from the front rows. Then the "Connecticut Songbird," a cheery fat man, sang a lament about his terrible life before "the Lord reached down his hand for me." He kept his eyes riveted to the ceiling while he was singing, as if he expected the hand to appear once again, and there were more shouts of "Beautiful...
...Last week, revarnished and renamed My Heart Cries for You, the Chanson had become 1951's first big hit. Its sprightly tempo had been slowed by Conductor-Composer Percy Faith to a lazy waltz, and its elegant tale of pastoral courtship changed to a monotonous lover's lament.* Result: the song is a favorite with crooners, hillbilly specialists and barroom baritones. Six of its eleven recorded versions (including those by Guy Mitchell, Dinah Shore and Jimmy Wakely) are listed on Billboard and Variety popularity charts...
...critic" Ratmer ("Punch, Brother, Punch," CRIMSON 1/11/51) taken the trouble to look into Lament's admirably simple file of its extraordinarily complete periodical holdings, he would have found, under "Punch," that that library has bound copies of the magazine for which he so diligently searched, from 1341, the year in which it was first published, through 1950. The bound copies are to be found conveniently located in the approximate center of the second level stacks, as all "Punch" readers are undoubtedly aware...
...Sharecropper's lament...
...Frank Loesser's score, though not unusually accomplished, is wonderfully appropriate: it has the blare of the story, the directness of the dances, the brassiness of the locale. One or two love songs would scarcely be missed; one or two of the ditties, such as Adelaide's Lament, have lively tunes. Michael Kidd's dances are clean and sharp, whether burlesquing honky-tonk routines or pantomiming the drama of dice games...