Word: mockin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Poetess Moore's finest work, Piece was nonetheless a heartfelt exhortation and, according to Marianne, could even be warbled to the tune of an old folk song that sometimes begins, "Hush, li'l baby, don' say a word, mamma's gonna buy you a mockin'-bird ..." A piece from Piece: Take off the goat-horns, Dodgers, that egret/which two very fine base-stealers can offset./ You've got plenty: Jackie Robinson/and Campy and big Newk, and Dodgerdom again/watching everything you do. You won last year. Come...
...Among them: Nola, Goof us, Tennessee Waltz, Mockin' Bird Hill, How High the Moon, The World Is Waiting jor the Sunrise, Just One More Chance...
...large has yet to hear of the Page Milk Co., but since those dairyish days four years ago, only the deaf and the dead have escaped hearing the big, plain, healthy voice of "Patti Page." Three of her records, Tennessee Waltz, Would 1 Love You and Mockin' Bird Hill, are among the top eleven on the hit parade; since its release last fall, her Tennessee Waltz has sold some 2,300,000 copies-a feat which has won her a gold medal with a diamond in it from grateful Mercury Records...
...Mockin' Bird Hi!l (Patti Page; Mercury). Patti-duetting with Patti, thanks to the marvels of modern electronics-cooks up another waltz, country-style, for customers not yet fed to the teeth with Tennessee Waltz...