Word: romberg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...where they made a fortune publishing the works of Jerome Kern and George Gershwin, then shifted to London in 1929 to take over Britain's venerable Chappell & Co., establishing branches throughout the world and tying up the publishing rights for just about every major Broadway composer from Romberg to Loewe; of a heart attack; in London...
...VERY BEST OF COLE PORTER (MGM) is one of a seven-disk series that includes "the very best of" Gershwin, Rodgers and Hart, Kern, Romberg, Lerner and Loewe, and Berlin. The records have too many humdrum instrumental numbers, but occasionally are brightened by the voices of singers worth listening for: Lena Home, Judy Garland, Mel Torme, Rosemary Clooney, Helen Traubel, Kate Smith and Maurice Chevalier. The Porter, for instance, has Louis Armstrong (You're the Top), Eartha Kitt (Always True to You in My Fashion) and Margaret Whiting (Just One of Those Things...
...smallish, dark-skinned man with gentle eyes and a fringelike beard, he led his Riff tribesmen in the last romantic war of this century. In the U.S., the vision of Krim's snow-white turban, flowing djella-bah and spirited Arabian steed was put to music by Sigmund Romberg in Broadway's The Desert Song. In North Africa, his tenacious struggle against the armies of France and Spain sent a throb of nationalism through the Arab world...
...slogans as "Built, Not Stuffed" for Ostermoor mattresses. Tin Pan Alley did not hear his first song until he was in his mid-30s, but then in 1908 he wrote "Cuddle Up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine," and during the next 30 years teamed up with Vincent Youmans, Sigmund Romberg, Jerome Kern and Rudolf Friml. Among his hits: "One Alone," Roberta's "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes." and Rose Marie's "Indian Love Call...
Sacramento, Calif., Music Circus: Sigmund Romberg's 1926 solution to French North African troubles. The Desert Song...