Word: songed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rosoff, millionaire subway builder and longtime contractor in Latin America, on frolic at Saratoga, N.Y., asked a nightclub singer for his favorite song, "South America Take It Away," and got action. An Argentine visitor objected. Sam, a nimble 63, put 200 pounds behind the punch, knocked him cold...
...world-weary outsider, these sentimental lines would scarcely seem to fit the barren, rocky acres of Star Island, one of the nine Isles of Shoals off New Hampshire's brief coast. But to the religiously liberal Unitarian Fellowship, these and the other two stanzas of the song Gosport Harbor, explain the intangible atmosphere of peace that makes Star Island a favorite summer retreat. For half a century Unitarians have gone from some 24 states "to worship God here in the midst of His sea to take counsel together of the deep thing that abide, to share the friendship...
...million-a-year boost in the payroll) put into effect on the demand of the Screen Cartoonists Guild would not allow the studio to keep on going full blast with a reasonable hope of profit. Work would have to stop, said he, on all but four feature productions (Song of the South, Fun and Fancy Free, How Dear to My Heart, All in Fun). Workers on all other projects would have...
Written overseas in Italy, the song was arranged for complete orchestration for $35 by Franco Mele, one of Rome's leading night club pianists, and was copywrighted later in this country and recorded at Burrier's expense by Preston Sandiford, a Negro pianist in Boston...
Since April, the--number has been played at the Latin Quarter, the Hotel Bradford, and over the air on WBZ's "Swing Serenande." In spite of these successes and the enthusiastic approval of numerous friends, Burrier-now plans to abandon hope of having the song published unless something new turns...