Word: listened
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...issue of TIME, May 24, contains a review of Charles Eugene Claghorn's The Mocking Bird in which credit for writing the song, Listen to the Mocking Bird, is given to the late Septimus Winner. The review does go on to state that "Sep" got the idea for his most famous song from "Whistling Dick," a Negro beggar who used to strum his guitar and whistle like a bird...
...Dick" (Richard Milburn) is very much less than adequate. Milburn was a barber who worked in his father's shop on Lombard Street in Philadelphia. He was a guitar player and a marvelous whistler, and it was he who originated the melody and at least the title of Listen to the Mocking Bird. Winner only set down the melody and arranged it after it had been played and whistled and sung over to him by Milburn. Winner may have furnished most or all of the words as published, but the life of the song springs from the melody...
...married her, but last March he ar rived in Manhattan, brideless and damning a U. S. Consul in Jugoslavia. "He got to have proof can I support her. I tell him about Wiseman. He no listen. I been to Washington to the State Department. I been to Bob Marshall.* I been to the Alaska Congressman.† I got a lawyer. We telephone Zagreb, Jugoslavia. He cost me $34. We sending telegrams four times. I go to Seattle, get affidavits from seven wholesale houses which sell to me in Wise man how much I buy. I come back to Washington again...
Phone the CRIMSON (Kir. 2811) or listen to Station WCOP, between 7 and 8 o'clock...
Even before the dinner had broken up, the sound of glasses being broken on the floor in 4-4 time began to pervade the room. The German prizefighter student who was finally located was told to "get out if you don't want to listen." "Who could gat oudt?" boomed the reply...