Word: sing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grim and war is horrible. It has always been the military man himself who has been the first to point this out, wisely leaving it to well-manicured civilians to sing sweetly of its lice and mud and torture and death. . . . This present tragedy of history is markedly different from its predecessors. In this war the artist is on the spot. Whatever his previous preoccupation with three plums in a silver dish or three girls in a grassy glade, the artist has now been wrenched out of it by the necessity of recording . . . man's reaction to the greatest...
Those who have volunteered thus far to sing for the fun of it, on their own time, are Wotherell, W. Kulick, K. W. Pauli, E. Kandib, R. H. Follett, R. H. Glauber, S. Aronoff, J. A. Jasper, M. Theaman, V. L. Migliore, B. T. Wesley, E. L. McDonald, L. Wagner, L. J. Kelly, John Vincek, Charles Coflin, and Adam Dydack...
Platoon six came forth with an acapella choir to sing some original songs by Richard Roban and cop first place among the eight skits. Competition was so close for the first prize award of being first to chow for a week that the company morale officer, Lieutenant Herbert Fields, who acted as judge, was unable to decide among the offerings of the sixth, fifth, and seventh platoons. A poll of the entire company the following morning, however, decided in favor of the "Singing Sixth...
...snap and lure for what it lacks in style and wit. The girls are beautiful, the costumes bright, the dancing fast & furious. Though "Fats" Waller's score provides no new Honeysuckle Rose and, in general, is bet ter danced than sung, it is pleasantly satisfying. The Ladies Who Sing With a Band is a gay spoof of female mike-blasters, This Is So Nice is a likeable ditty, There's a Man in My Life, a warming love song, and Hi-De-Ho-High is good Waller husky-dusky. One lyric offers the final criticism of liquid hosiery...
Nearly all of her songs are her own original compositions. But every one has the authentic ring of the Negro's own pulsing musical dialect. When the late James Weldon Johnson heard her sing several years ago, he was astounded. "I never believed," he remarked while tears ran down his cheeks, "that a white woman could tell it like that...