Word: moanin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Libby Holman Reynolds (née Holzman), 34, myopic, husky-voiced torch singer (Moanin' Low]; and Ralph Holmes, actor, 23, son of Actor Taylor Holmes and brother of Actor Phillips Holmes; suddenly; in Washington...
...rose satin dress, spangled with sequins, which swept away from her trim ankles. Her face was beautiful, with the rich, ripe beauty of southern darkness, a, deep bronze brown, like her bare arms. . . . She began her strange rites in a 'voice full of shoutin' and moanin' and prayin' and sufferin', a wild, rough Ethiopian voice, harsh and volcanic, released between rouged lips and the whitest of teeth, the singer swaying slightly to the rhythm...
Ralph Rainger (Paramount) is one of the few popular songwriters who has had thorough classical training. He studied at Manhattan's Institute of Musical Art. To earn a living, he took a job as a pianist in the First Little Show (1929), wrote Moanin' Low for Libby Holman. For Paramount Rainger and his lyricist Leo Robin wrote June in January, Love in Bloom and the songs Gladys Swarthout sang in Rose of the Rancho. When Paramount wants swing music, Mack Gordon and Harry Revel are set to work. Clowning at parties pleases them more. With little urging Gordon...
...thought Miss Rita Rio's tapdancing and moanin' low rated her a larger role, just as we tired of goggleeyed Cantor; but judged on the basis of a Cantor picture, this one seemed highly successful. Its rapid sequence of situations, each a bit funnier than its predecessor, and the sustained continuity of the melodramatic plot--rare in musical pictures--give to the picture enough fun and excitement to merit it the attention of even lukewarm Cantor addicts...
...Composer Schwartz and Lyricist Dietz have been recognized by Tin Pan Alley as a top-notch songwriting team. When they work on a show, they hire a hotel room, stay in it until the show is ready for rehearsal. They refer to typical musicomedy songs in jargon: a "restless" ("Moanin' Low"), a "Columbus" ("I Found A Million Dollar Baby"), a "Hoover" ("Just Around A Corner"). The coat, vest and pants of a song are its verse, transition and chorus. Dietz-Schwartz songs ("Something to Remember You By," "Dancing in the Dark," "Shine on Your Shoes...