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Word: pajamaed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ingredients of good show tunes come from requirements of staging, action and pace, and as a result relatively few show tunes become pop hits. But last week, no fewer than three tunes from The Pajama Game, Broadway's brightest musical of the season, were tweaking jukebox and disk-jockey fancies: a slinky, satirical tango called Hernando's Hideaway was high on the bestseller record lists, a rowdy novelty called Steam Heat was also on the lists, and the show's big ballad, Hey There, suddenly showed signs of becoming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Show's the Thing | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

Nobody was more surprised, or pleased, by this than Manhattan's Richard Adler, 30, and Jerry Ross, 28, creators of Pajama Game's musical score and the U.S.'s hottest songwriting team. "This," they say with a verve that is not yet curdled by success, "is the pot o' gold." For Adler and Ross, the magical rainbow began to form about four years ago, when they met in a music publisher's office and decided to pool their talents. Adler's contributions: a childhood rebellion against formal music studies (his father is Pianist Clarence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Show's the Thing | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

...Pajama Game (John Raitt, Janis Paige, Eddie Foy Jr., Carol Haney, Stanley Prager; Columbia LP). The song list of the George Abbott-Richard Bissell hit has a few nifties: Hey There, Her Is, There Once Was a Man (a satire on hillbilly tunes), and Hernando's Hideaway (a take-off on tangos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Jul. 5, 1954 | 7/5/1954 | See Source »

Toast of the Town (Sun. 8 p.m., CBS). Scene from The Pajama Game, with John Raitt, Janis Paige...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Jun. 14, 1954 | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

Married. TV's Wally Cox, 29, who recently (TIME, June 7) got up courage to marry his TV flame in the script of his Mr. Peepers program; and Musicomedy Dancer Marilyn (The Pajama Game) Gennaro, 20; both for the first time; in Bozman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 14, 1954 | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

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