Word: lyric
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Union Clubbers is this lyric, nor the bitter sincerity with which Pete sings and strums...
...blonde (peroxide) who has been around sufficiently to know who and what is strictly from Dixie. Born Harriette Lake in 1909 at Valley City, N.D., she was tapped for M.G.M. just 21 years later. Among her assets at that time were considerable talent at the piano, a well-developed lyric soprano, three years at the University of Washington, and a onetime concert-singing mother, Mrs. Annette Yde-Lake, a Hollywood voice teacher...
...year after he wrote this lyric, William Guggenheim, 72, maverick brother of the copper tycoons, wrote a last will & testament that was even cornier. The will left nothing to his wife and child, split his $1,000,000 estate (Broadway's estimate) equally among four women-all his "protegees" at the time of his death last June. The protégées: Lillyan Andrus (Miss America of '29), Mildred Borst (Miss Connecticut of '30), Marialyce Rice, a Texas-born Ziegfeld beauty. The fourth beneficiary: his secretary, Florence Sullivan...
...bring this broad-shouldered musical form to its first public birth. Since, along with Negro spirituals, Negro blues are the most distinguished U.S. lyric art, that is no small achievement...
President Niles Trammell of NBC persuaded musical General Manager Kent Cooper, 61, of A.P. to publish and broadcast the Cooper-dooper Dixie Girl. Mr. Cooper "wrote the lyric and music in 1923 and the rhythm is of that time." So is the lyric: Never knew such wonderful days, Glorious days, it seems. All because her wonderful ways Make life sweeter than dreams. Chorus: 'Way down in Dixie, In sunny Dixie, Some one's waitin'. Soon I'll be datin' My darlin' Dixie girl...