Word: sing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what one hears of Newport is record crowds and jammed facilities, the Festival is more than a series of concerts; it, too, has this sense of participation that Seeger noted in Ireland. The people who come to Newport come to listen, but they also come to play, to sing, and most of all to learn...
Among a people who sing folk songs of their bandits, death is likely to make a hero of Kocero. In the Turkish city of Adana, youngsters have already formed a "Kocero Admirers' Club." And despite repeated government statements that he is dead, Kocero lives still for the peasants of southeastern Turkey...
Calling themselves the "J's with Jamie," they are the original and only singers of the Marlboro song, "You get a lot to like with a Marlboro-filter, flavor, flip-top box." They sing the Campbell's Red Kettle Soup song and "The Campbells are coming with pork and beans." The J's and Jamie are so subtly harmonious that they can sound like six different brews for six different beers...
...They sing about Paper Mate's de-pen-pendible pen, they do the Pillsbury suite ("Nothin' says lovin' like something from the oven"), and Jamie's is the voice of the animated Aero-Shave mermaid. They do Northwest Orient's Oriental airlines song, A.T. & T.'s longdistance elegy, and Alka-Seltzer's bel canto promise: "Relief is just a swallow away." One of their super-specialties is, "Look for the spear and get chewing enjoyment...
After the Indiana populace heard Jamie sing that for the 22,356th time in the autumn of 1962, Birch Bayh went to Washington...