Word: songed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...party in Manhattan's swank Hotel Pierre, a young man with a gold discharge button in his lapel bounded to the platform with the aplomb of an old vaudevillian. His selections from Broadway's Song of Norway and Carousel stopped the show. Last week, one of the guests, a Broadway agent, signed the singing war veteran to a contract, and had high hopes of landing him a fat part in a musical comedy. For husky Sidney Lawson, 23, it was quite a step. Only a month ago he was a member of the Society of Timid Souls...
...Paramount) purports to record the life and raucous times of the late Texas Guinan (most famous of nightclub hostesses), whose battle cry ("Hello, sucker!") might be carved on a monument to the 1920's. Incendiary Blonde is not such a monument. It is a brassy synthesis of color, song and dance, spattered with laughs, sniffles and melodrama, and brought to life chiefly by vigorous, charming Betty Hutton. In its own way, it is a rather likable show...
...course, "We do not write to sell, and I think a lot of the best stuff has not sold at all," the record has an exceedingly successful ring to it: ¶ Pupil John Mayo Goss's check from the Atlantic was for a short story, Bird Song; the 50-year-old ex-adman's story was the 25th to be sold by a Strode student...
...recorded three albums -French Art Songs and Songs by Debussy (Victor), Song Recital by Maggie Teyte (Gramophone Shop)-which spread her fame to the U.S. Now Maggie Teyte will see whether her studied musicianship will stand her in as good stead as once her pretty legs and elfish personality did. Says she: "There are many compensations in age . . . for serious music I can even let my hair down...
...become the undisputed No. i on the jingle-jangle hit parade. Its composers, Garth Montgomery and Len Mackenzie (of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn), not unmindful of the famed banana smash of the early 1920s, decided to doll up their lyrics, and give them a try as a popular song...