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Word: sing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spurs that jingle, jangle, jingle, As I go ridin' merrily along. And they sing, "Oh, ain't you glad you're single!" And that song ain't so very jar from wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: War Songs | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

...What men sing as they march forth to war is a continual vexation to serious musicians. In the Civil War, Stonewall Jackson's "foot cavalry" were fond of a song praising goober peas ("Goodness, how delicious, eating goober peas!"); while the inconsequential battle hymn of the South became...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: War Songs | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

Physical requirements are lower than for the Air Corps. Eyesight: 20/40 correctible to 20/20. Age: under 30 from civilian life, or under 32 from Army personnel. Graduates become staff sergeants and learn to sing verses to the tune of the Caisson Song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Eyes for the Guns | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

...summer concerts. Most audiences and musicians have learned to take such incidental orchestration in their stride. But at Vancouver B.C.'s open-air pavilion, Baritone John Charles Thomas encountered one alfresco sound too many-a persistent bullfrog in a nearby pond. Every time Baritone Thomas began to sing, the bullfrog answered. Thomas hit a low note, the bullfrog followed him. At last Thomas was about ready to holler "Uncle." Before he began his next song, a beater was delegated to quell the disturber. Thomas lifted up his voice, the bullfrog chimed in. The beater cracked the water with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Rivals | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

Soon afterward, Burl ambled over to CBS to sing on Back Where I Come From. A million listeners were soon tuning in regularly to hear the "Wayfarin' Stranger." Strumming a tentative chord or two, singing as though he were alone and were singing just to hear himself sing, Burl acquainted his listeners with such magic Americana as Sweet Betsy from Pike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army Troubadour | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

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