Word: solo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...records, "Tiger Rag," is similar to an older American version, except that the final trumpet solo has the phrase "I wandered today to the hill, Maggic" instead of the earlier "Oh, the monkey wrapped his tail around the flag pole." Continuing in the community song vein later on are snatches from "Tea For Two" and "Pat On Your Old Grey Bonnet...
...glee club, like the orchestra, is an extremely competent organization, but the program hand-cuffed it. All five of the folk songs would have been very effective sung by one person and accompanied by a guitar, but when arranged for a solo voice, a piano, and a chorus of about eighty, they completely lose all characteristics of folk music. And when the diction is painfully clear and all the r's are carefully rolled, the contradiction becomes even more apparent. Folk songs do not belong on the concert stage...
Vachel Lindsay's Simon Legree" in Douglas Moore's choral adaption enjoyed enthusiastic competence at the hands of the Tiger unit. Adept musical comedy touches in the solo made this selection attractive enough to smother the tastes of a poorly-directed "Promised Land" from "Porgy and Bess." In any event football classics such as "Going Back" would up the program to establish a final fresh collegiate taste that spells an audience verdict of success for the annual event...
...Colorado Rockies, three zoo-bred bear cubs, Solo, Shorty and Blacky, from the Denver zoo, sat up and begged for peanuts when they saw three hunters. The hunters shot them...
...Greece. 5. New Mexico. 3. Guatemala. 81. Flyer Bill Odom set a new record by circling the globe solo in an hour and five minutes more than...