Word: lullabye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ Douglas Moore's Gallantry: A Soap Opera, produced at Columbia University's Brander Matthews Theater, is a tuneful romp through the world of the daytime TV serial. The libretto by Arnold Sundgaard picks up "another chapter in Gallantry, the true-time story of hope and folly," at...
The mood is hushed. A guitar is strummed lightly, and as the lullaby begins, a young mother sings in sweet, loving tones to her helpless child:
The lullaby is one of a dozen Songs of Couch and Consultation (Commentary Records) beguilingly warbled over her own guitar playing by blonde Nightclub Singer Katie Lee. With lyrics by Bud Freeman, a sometime movie press-agent and independent recordmaker, the disk is an eminently amusing spoof of the nation...
The musical score of the film is everything a squirrel could ask for. When the animals sleep, a choir of angels breathes over them what sounds almost exactly like Brahms's Lullaby but turns out to be an original composition by George Bruns, the man who wrote Davy Crockett...
Tuned Sheep. But he went on with the show, served up nearly 30 minutes of his brand of exaggerated, wildly allusive humor. The first sketch was a pleasant conceit about a hot block of "tuned sheep," whose neck bells rendered a spirited version of Lullaby of Birdland. The second, "Incident...