Word: sing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anderson embellished a Gershwin tune from the musical "Of Thee I Sing," and the classic "Wintergreen for President" medley was born. The arrangement quickly caught the undergraduate fancy and the band has yet to march onto Soldiers Field without a chorus of yells for "Wintergreen...
Laurltz Melchior, the Met's heroic tenor, fought heroically through a blizzard to sing in Bloomington, Ind., but it was no use. He tried to fly from Chicago, but the planes were grounded. So he set out by auto. An hour later he was stuck in a snowdrift. Bloomington presently heard from him by phone, too late. He had discovered that he was fighting his way toward Bloomington, Ill., 160 miles away from Indiana's Bloomington...
Frank Sinatra prepared to get out of a rut with a majestic leap. In Hollywood's The Miracle of the Bells he would play a priest, and not sing a note...
...same year. McCormack won the gold medal at the National Irish Music Festival (Feis Ceoil) in 1902. Joyce, almost set to win it in 1904, refused to sing from sight a song he didn't know, stalked off the platform. His emotionally charged speaking voice can be heard in a recording (retailing at $11 a disc) of "Anna Livia Plurabelle" from Finnegans Wake...
When in Sorrow, Sing. The Colums saw Joyce most often in Paris, after Ulysses had appeared and he was working on Finnegans Wake. Already half-blind and often down on his luck, he expected "a lot of attention and help of all kinds from his friends." Now & then he would stalk unannounced into the Colums' apartment, sit down at the piano and begin to sing. "When anything hit him hard, Joyce had relief in singing, and all his songs were...