Word: lamentations
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...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...
...Hecuba's Lament," by Gustav Holst will be the featured work with Eunice Alberts singing the solo and Judith F. Haskell '51 taking the solo dance part...