Word: lyricists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There was some split second tunesmithing. In Hollywood, a few hours after the news from Pearl Harbor, Composer Lew Pollack and Lyricist Ned Washington produced a number which Comedian Bert Wheeler sang that night at Ciro's: Oh, we didn't want to do it, but they're asking for it now. So we'll knock the Japs right into the laps of the Nazis. . . . They'll hear the beat of a million feet of people who'd rather fight than eat, And here we come, here we come. I'd hate...
...Last week a patriotic song, Freedom's Land (published by Mills Music Inc., with lyricist's name printed as "Archibold MacLeisch"), words by MacLeish, music by Composer Roy Harris, rode the CBS air waves. First verse...
...song of the white-collar man called from his office to bear the burdens of Democracy" (according to its lyricist) was last week plugged in Los Angeles by Major Alberto E. Merrill, U.S. Army, and four recruiting sergeants. The Army has been plagued by many a song-plugger and press agent, but A Grand Vacation With Pay is the first recruiting song to command official sanction. Its authors are L. Wolfe Gilbert and Jimmy McHugh (Waiting For the Robert E. Lee, I Can't Give You Anything But Love and Ramona...
...amours of these two are accompanied by all the dancing anyone could want and at least three more great Richard Rodgers tunes: I Could Write a Book (sweet), Love Is My Friend (torchy), Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered (catchy). Cigar-chewing Lyricist Lorenz Hart, the pint-sized genius with a two-quart capacity, abets the spirit of the occasion with leerics about zippers, canopied beds, secret telephones, mirrored ceilings, iniquity, chambermaids who are deaf, dumb & blind. Brazen little June Havoc, sister of Burlesqueen Gypsy Rose Lee, does a sidesplitting parody of all kinds of cafe singing and yields nothing...
...years, Lyricist Hammerstein has written show songs with Composer Kern (Show Boat, Sunny, Music in the Air). The Last Time I Saw Paris, said he last week, is the only song he ever wrote that was not written to order. It is also the first Kern-Hammerstein piece whose words were written before the music. It is a hit, said Mr. Hammerstein, because "everyone feels that way about Paris, even the people who've never been there...