Word: lyricist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Labor Day weekend, a pop lyricist named Charles Grean (The Thing, Sweet Violets) was placidly cruising Long Island Sound in his 26-ft. skiff when he was struck by an inspiration. "With this hoop craze," he thought, "there's bound to be a song. Somebody ought to move fast!" Grean raced ashore and started to move. Next day he took his already completed lyrics around to his pal, Composer Bob Davie, and within an hour the two of them had batted out "a simple little teenage song with a good rock 'n' roll melody," named it Hoopa...
...days later the completed records started coming into Atlantic's New York offices, were promptly funneled out to a list of 2,500 key disk jockeys about the country. Atlantic distributors started setting up deejay hoop contests through the Middle West. Scarcely more than a week after Lyricist Grean landed, his song was on the market ahead of the competition, and the painful fruits of his inspiration were assaulting ears across the land...
...Should Beth die in the upcoming LB one-hour musical version of Little Women? "Absolutely not," said Composer-Lyricist Richard Adler. When Louisa May Alcott finished the last paragraph of her classic he said, Beth was still breathing. Her creator, Adler argued, killed Beth m the book's sequel, Little Women, Part II. Come October, Beth (played by Margaret O'Brien) will live...
Died. Alfred Bryan, 86, lyricist, writer of about 1,000 songs (among them: Peg o' My Heart; Dardanella; Come, Josephine, in My Flying Machine); in Morristown...
...Musica Antique. Star and principal lyricist for the current revue is a craggy-faced comic named Ronny Graham, a Broadway fugitive (New Faces of 1952) whose delivery is sometimes so shaggy that it is hard to tell which end of his joke is wagging. He mugs through an uproarious monologue on graduation day at a bop school, i.e., a baccalaureate sermon on how to puff marijuana cigarettes without wasting a whiff of those "leftwing Luckies." With poker-faced, evil-eyed Straight Man Gerry Matthews, 26, he delivers a to-the-point parody of TV Torquemada Mike Wallace. The cellar...