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...welter of pop music last week, a song called It's All in the Game was beginning to get attention. The credit line on its record label read simply "Sigman-Dawes." Lyricist Carl Sigman's sentimental lines were the standard drippy stuff, but the lilting waltz tune had an unusually fresh, clean sound. Its composer: the late Charles G. ("Hell 'n Maria") Dawes, Chicago banker, amateur musician, and Vice President of the U.S. in the Coolidge Administration...
Angel in the Wings (music & lyrics by Carl Sigman & Robert Hilliard; produced by Marjorie & Sherman Ewing) is that rare thing these days, an intimate revue; and that even rarer thing, a gay one. Injecting the gaiety are: 1) Grace Hartman, 2) Paul Hartman, 3) Hank Ladd. The three of them are the whole show; or rather, and most unfortunately, they aren't. Included also are some pretty dreary gags and skits, and some fairly routine songs & dances...
...night two months ago a 29-year-old lyricist named Bob Hilliard asked Carl Sigman, who sets his words to music, how he would like to write a song about civilization. "Just like that," said Sigman, "it killed...
...last week, eight record versions of this jangling jingle had been turned out, and Civilization was creeping up bestseller lists. It was one of those flash, expendable tunes bound to be a public craze, and then a public nuisance. Hilliard and Sigman have already written another song. Theme: the Thousand Islands. Explained Tunesmith Sigman: "We may not be good songwriters, but we're fast...
...long career was a deep, almost fierce devotion to this country and its democratic institutions." For him "America was liberty." Later, in the I.L.G.W.U. 's long civil war of right wing v. left wing, Schlesinger fell a political victim to the Communists, died a "broken man." Morris Sigman, Schlesinger's successor as president of the I.L.G.W.U. Sigman was "a real proletarian, a type rare among labor leaders." He "fought Communist disruption on the left and at the same time undertook to clean up some of the political machines on his own side of the fence. . . . This relentless honesty...