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Louis Armstrong does a crowd-pleasing routine about his trip to Europe and his audience with the Pope, then he and Jack Teagarden follow with "Old Rockin' Chair...
Brenda's two albums-This Is Brenda and Brenda Lee-have sold a quarter-million copies in half a year and are still riding high. Brenda's version of Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree is this year's hottest seasonal hit, and two other singles. I Want To Be Wanted and I'm Sorry, have between them sold 2½ million copies.Apparently, Brenda is at her most appealing to the 7-to-17 set when she is most world wary...
...Nosed Reindeer, which after twelve seasons and a sale of close to 30 million copies is this year enshrined in no fewer than 25 new recordings by Paul Anka, Ella Fitzgerald, the Chipmunks, Crazy Otto, Guy Lombardo, et al. By Marks's own testimony, his recently released Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree figures to be another Rudolph. Why? Says Marks, who does both words and music: "The lyric is a masterpiece of writing...
...Rockin' around the Christmas tree At the Christmas party hop, Mistletoe hung where you can see Ev'ry couple tries to stop...
...Democratic primaries moved from the plains of Wisconsin to the mountains of West Virginia, the character of the struggle changed. It was most noticeable in the state's southern half, where shutdown coal mines left company towns grimly trademarked by "Eisenhower curtains" (windows boarded up), families living on "rockin' chair" (unemployment compensation) and "mollygrub" (surplus-food handouts). Despite prosperous factories in the northern half, the state's labor force is 15% unemployed, worst in the nation...