Word: songed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smith, always present in the crucial moments, floats in through the door as Cary triumphantly sings "you, you, you" and goes into the chorus of "Night and Day." This is the Warner Brothers' penetrating conception of how Cole Porter, on whose life the picture is debased, wrote his famous song...
...judge "Night and Day" by this scene alone. The rest of it isn't on quite as high a level. From the opening on the Yale campus with Grant conducting the bulldog song to the end in the Yale Chapel when the Glee Club sings "Night and Day" hymn-like, while Grant and Miss Smith reunite under the trees, the picture is a model of inanity and dullness. The one cause for thanks is that nobody let the Warner Brothers in on the fact that Porter studied music at Harvard...
...Arthur Margetson, recently of "Around the World," who sings "Land of Opportunitee;" and Leonora Corbett, the other-worldly wife in Broadway's original "Blithe Spirit," who solidly sends "The Dew is on the Rose" (pro-early divorce: "before they ever rifted, they drifted--apart"), and the show's best song...
Sinatra turned the song down because its wide-ranged wails were too awkward to sing. Bandleaders and record companies were similarly shy. Then a Chicago crooner named Eddie Howard gave it a whirl. Within a month To Each His Own climbed to first place in the popular-song polls. Last week it was firmly established as the No. 1 song hit of the season...
...promote a lipstick and nail polish called "Ultra Violet," put out by Manhattan's Revlon Products Corp. It had also been worrying over the same sort of thing for Columbia Recording Corp.'s Dinah Shore. Then several of its geniuses remembered the old song. It was a natch. Lyric writers changed the first line to 'Who will buy my ultra violets?" and substituted "fall" for "spring." Dinah Shore recorded it. Admen hastily readied a $100,000 campaign for Dinah which mentioned Revlon and a $500,000 campaign for Revlon which mentioned Dinah. Copywriters rose to inspired heights...