Word: musically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GEORGE M! brings George M. Cohan's familiar music to audiences in Brunswick, Me., Aug. 4-16; Westbury, L.T., through Aug. 10; Haddonfield, N.J., Aug. 11-23, with Mickey Rooney; Corning, N.Y., Aug. 26-31; and Los Angeles' Dorothy Chandler Pavilion through Aug. 23, with Joel Grey, who starred on Broadway...
...sparkle into his Jacqueline's anniversary. First there was a gala dinner for family and friends at their villa in Glifadha, outside Athens; then they moved on to the Neraida Club for Jackie's introduction to Athenian night life. The dancing and bouzouki music went on until 7 a.m., with Jackie clapping spiritedly to the rhythm and raising toasts to the players. At one point, eavesdroppers heard her tell Ari: "I want to know every word of those beautiful songs. They're simply marvelous." And her birthday present...
...song that epitomizes Loesser's direct style. Rarely was his music concerned exclusively with itself. The lyrics came first, and he proved it by the way he wedded his tunes to the rhythms of the words-by the way he always left room in his songs for a good laugh. Loesser also had a knack for turning the harsh into the lyric. While Guys and Dolls was still on its pre-Broadway tour, Loesser became fascinated with a line in Abe Burrows' book and decided to make a song out of it: The Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap...
...Broadway revue, The Illustrators (1936), for which he wrote five songs. The show was a flop, but it earned him a Hollywood offer. With Hoagy Carmichael, he wrote Small Fry for Bing Crosby and Two Sleepy People for Bob Hope. Loesser later wrote both words and music for such hits as / Wish I Didn't Love You So; Baby, It's Cold Outside; On a Slow Boat to China and the ultra low-brow Bloop, Bleep, a rhapsody to a leaky faucet...
Died. Frank Loesser, 59, composer-lyricist who gave Broadway Guys and Dolls and many other hits (see Music...