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Otherwise, Rhythm on the River (not to be confused with Rhythm on the Range) is like the best Bing Crosby musicals which preceded it. With the quiet simplicity of a nursery rhyme it unrolls the fable of a lazy composer (Crosby) who collaborates with a pretty, ambitious lyricist (Mary Martin) in knocking out the popular tunes which make Basil Rathbone a Manhattan social superba. When Crosby and Martin set out to write under their own names they are accused of stealing the Rathbone style, tramp the edges off their heels in vain visits to song publishers. With this tissue-thin...
...Camel cigarets, Lyricist Johnny Mercer wrote and sang a five-stanza Calypso-style greeting, set to Benny Goodman's music. Excerpts...
After twenty-one years of teaching at Harvard, John Livingston Lowes has given his last lecture, Yesterday at noon, he walked into Sever 11, ascended the rostrum, and gave a short talk on Robert Herrick, the seventeenth century lyricist. Thus with the gay lines of the poet, he wrote "Finis" to his long career as one of the foremost scholars of his time a career that is remarkable in its contribution to learning. Dr. Lowes, apart from having gained invaluable experience in colleges throughout the country, has written many books on English Literature. His "The Road to Xanadu...
...Minstrel Show, the Olio was enlivened by " 'Lasses' (Molasses) Mercer and 'Chittlins' (pig or calf intestines) Crosby in an erudite analyseration of swing." The "analyseration" was sung to the music of the 1920's famed duet Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean, new words by Lyricist Mercer (Cowboy From Brooklyn, et al.). The summer's most amusing ditty gets more amusing when Crosby explains to Mercer that jazz is merely old-fashioned music hopped...
Impartial critics wondered what would happen if Lyricist Cook's hallelujah was combined with Bandleader Lopez' squeakless tune...