Word: songe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...collect call--from an inmate at a local prison," Appel says, explaining that his caller rushed to request a song before the operator disconnected the call...
After a second phone call from the same prisoner, Appel cues up the song...
...another sense, Winfrey's production of Beloved is a logical extension of her TV book club; it brings a novel she loves to millions, who can read it at the movies. Morrison was an early beneficiary of Oprah's literary saleswomanship; her 1977 Song of Solomon was the book club's second selection. "Sales were thunderous!" the author says. "It sold more in three or four months than it had in its entire 20 years...
...even touched yet. From 1919 to 1924 these would virtually serve as Gershwin's private playground and personal gold mine, from which the Brooklyn-born son of immigrants proceeded to extract all kinds of music, including, in one glittering shovelful, not just his famous Rhapsody but also a related song called The Man I Love. This would beget almost instantly a new kind of American song, exemplified by Porter's Night and Day and Richard Rodgers' My Funny Valentine...
...services to the American song didn't end with providing a mechanical rabbit for others to chase. He was an incomparable booster of other writers; it's hard to find a rival that he didn't befriend and, if necessary, help. So it's not altogether unfair that when any song from that era is played, someone almost always asks, "Is that by Gershwin...