Word: songed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...choo and Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer. Russia's strangest importation from the West was the U.S. Marines' Hymn, sung to the tune of Clementine (which might give the Russians a dangerously erroneous idea of the Leathernecks). Latest favorite: the American Soldier's Song, which most Russians believe is constantly crooned by G.I.s; it is a speeded up version of There Is a Tavern in the Town, in which the tavern has become the scene of tender leave-taking between a girl and a soldier...
...where opportunity is not muffled. Australia has received applications from 150,000. Well-to-do Englishmen are buying estates in Eire, where eggs and meat abound. In the House of Commons last week, Herbert Morrison's brain-truster, Mr. Gordon-Walker, complained that the BBC had broadcast a song...
...Gordon-Walker held that the song was unworthy of a great corporation. Asked Mr. A. Beverley Baxter (Wood Green, Unionist): "Then should we suppress Gilbert & Sullivan's 'A policeman's lot is not a happy one?'" Laughter. Mr. I. L. Orr-Ewin (Weston-super-Mare, Unionist): "Is it suggested that 'Don't go down the mine, Daddy' is the cause of low coal production?" Renewed laughter...
...Centennial Summer's outstanding virtues: the unpretentious plugging of its pleasant music (one of the late Composer Jerome Kern's final movie chores before his death in 1945). No melody is bellowed from a stage or smothered in a big production number. Every song is tossed off, impromptu style, by whatever talent happens to be standing around at cue time. Even Constance Bennett, who presumably never took a singing lesson in her life, has a fling...
This unusual song-selling technique keeps the story moving with carefree charm. But it's brutal on the tunes. Of all eight new Kern melodies (including the already popular All Through the Day and In Love in Vain), not one sounds good enough to compete with Ol' Man River or Smoke Gets in Your Eyes...