Word: songed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their respective bailiwicks it might have been possible thus to present Hitler, Hirohito or Stalin, accompanied by the Horst Wessel song, Kimyjayo, or the Internationale. In this case, however, the apotheosis was being accorded to Frank Sinatra. The tune he was singing might well have been Lo, He Comes With Clouds Descending, but was in fact called The Music Stopped...
...sounded "too much like crumb, dumb and gum." He suggested that they cabbage the name of his good friend, then the New York World-Telegram's drama critic, Robert Garland. One Gumm sister, aged 11, decided to make a clean sweep. Hoagy Carmichael's Judy was a song she liked just then, so Frances Gumm has been Judy Garland ever since...
...ended a solo engagement at Lake Tahoe's Cal-Neva Lodge, drove off with her mother but forgot her hatbox. When she went back to get it, a man asked her to sing for him. She was in a hurry, but graciously agreed. The man was Song Writer Lew Brown. With him was Agent Al Rosen. So impressed was Agent Rosen by Judy's singing that for fruitless months he lugged the child around the Hollywood studios while casting directors stopped, looked, cried "too young," and refused to listen. One day Judy gained the ear of M.G.M...
...words for the Toreador Song make the only bull-they are no match for old associations. You can only smile when, instead of Toreador, Toreador, you hear...
...infallible indication of the state of a country's moral and political health -"when the heart's chord of sorrow is touched, the sounds produced are sombre and forlorn"-has carried its ever-new message across the centuries to the turbulent days of the Horst Wessel song...