Word: medleyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Band reached its full growth in the 30's when "Wintergreen" and other Leroy Anderson arrangements filled the Stadium when the teams weren't trying. Perfecting its half-time lock step, the Band could soon wind itself through 33 letters in 7 1-2 minutes while simultaneously playing a medley of the visitor's songs. Dormant during the war, the Band reappeared last year doing 128 letters throughout the season, and it was clear that the musicians who could also spell were back...
Explaining the absence of the "Wintergreen" medley from last Saturday's program, one band member said that they were "afraid the students might get tired of the song...
...Coventry last week, Gracie swaggered onstage before 1,000 General Electric employees, promptly pitched into a nostalgic Noel Coward medley and an Afrikaans song in "Lancashire French." Then she reverted to her old rough & tumble with a comic song called He Forgot to Come Back, wherein she quakingly called for "Hennerry." Only her celebrated cartwheels had been dropped from the prewar formula...
...parade should come to a half at some spacious intersection, the music-makers plan to exhibit some of their flashy drillwork a la Soldiers Field, breaking from block formation to a semicircle and striking up a service medley...
...Anderson embellished a Gershwin tune from the musical "Of Thee I Sing," and the classic "Wintergreen for President" medley was born. The arrangement quickly caught the undergraduate fancy and the band has yet to march onto Soldiers Field without a chorus of yells for "Wintergreen...