Word: songbooks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Finally, there is the more muddled case of the songs. Dalton reminded Heikki after the show that he and some other YD executives had gone through the MRA Songbook picking out "offensive songs." One of them, which was shown on television last fall, mocks out "the moaning and groaning you hear from some of our campuses and coffeehouses today." It was a folk song about a girl who apparently wanted to sleep with her "Willie" and selfishly wanted him to come back from the army. Dalton wanted it out, and Heikki agreed...
...Methodists since 1935, the revision was ordered by the church's General Conference in 1960. To find out what worshipers wanted, the editors, headed by the Rev. Carlton Young of Dallas, polled 12,800 ministers and laymen, fed their answers into a computer. The result is a songbook that neatly balances tradition and innovation; among the 539 entries are 122 new texts, 119 new tunes...
...crooners, mixing gently swinging jazz translations of Something's Gotta Give and Wives and Lovers with his sugar-cured ballads. Though his stage personality is about as imposing as his name, he exudes the kind of shy, squinty-eyed sincerity that bowls women over. His songbook is a treatise on good taste, superior arrangements and gimmick-free delivery, after the style of Frank Sinatra, who calls Jones "the best potential singer in the business." Jack, the son of Movie Tenor Allan Jones (Donkey Serenade) and Actress Irene Hervey, grew up "in the trade," spent eight years on the road...
...services resemble those contained in the Anglican Book of Common Prayer, which Methodism first used. The order takes account of the contemporary liturgical revival by providing a greater variety of seasonal prayers for the Christian year. Last week delegates approved the first new Methodist hymnal in 29 years. The songbook drops some familiar samples of 19th century hymnody, such as Rudyard Kipling's Recessional, which Negro Methodists claim has an unmistakable racial slur in its reference to "lesser breeds without the law." Added are 122 new texts, including such non-Methodist favorites as The Old Rugged Cross...
...drying marking pencils contain a solvent like those in the plastic glues, are more inconspicuous for sniffing. A Washington, D.C., public school music teacher told recently of a boy in her class who ordinarily never sang a note. One day she noticed him sniffing a marking pencil behind his songbook: "Then he got up and sang like a bird...