Word: songed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Broadway, as a song-& -dance man, Holtz was a flop. He flopped again as a comic until he got the idea of telling his Jewish stories in blackface, clicked in vaudeville, climbed to George White's Scandals. Later Holtz abandoned cork for a cane, made vaudeville history by playing the Palace for ten straight weeks. The stockmarket crash dropped him "from a million to $732"; the decline of vaudeville drove him to pastures new; but after a dozen years of musicomedy, radio, Hollywood, show-producing, real-estate trading, today he has most of his million back...
...Song Suckers. When the sucker has swallowed the bait by submitting his song, he gets an enthusiastic letter stating that his lyrics are indeed hit material, that with a good tune and publication they can scarcely fail to score. Expenses incidental to publication-tunewriting, arranging, etc.-will, of course, cost a small amount, which must be sent in advance. The sucker sends the money, and is gratified to receive 20 printed copies of his song. He next hears from an apparently different concern (the same shark using a different address), expressing great interest in his published song and suggesting that...
...cleverest of U.S. rackets was moving in last week on the U.S. armed forces. The racketeers, known to Tin Pan Alley as the "song sharks," mulct their victims-amateur songwriters-for amounts up to $100 apiece. The U.S.O. is after the sharks, but civilian experience indicates that little can be done except to warn potential G.I. suckers. Most sharks manage to operate within...
...song shark's most familiar bait is a small ad along these lines: "Send us your poems for expert criticism. You may have a song hit. Upon acceptance, we edit, publish, record your song and bring it to the attention of bands and broadcasting studios...
...return mail, the sharks beamed encouragement. Comments: "We receive very few lyrics that are as inspired and well-written as yours. ... It has distinct novelty and originality. ... It should make a beautiful and appealing song which people would love to sing, whistle and remember [$30 for music and professional copies...