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Word: songed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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After years of trying, she got to sing a song on the daddy of hillbilly radio programs, Grand 01' Opry, over Station WSM at Nashville. Then she made a hit yowling Ground Hog with Frank Moore and His Log Cabin Boys over WHAS, Louisville. Moore named her Cousin Emmy, and eventually she had her own air show. Two years ago KMOX hired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Cousin Emmy | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

Mood Music. In Los Angeles, J. A. Halcomb frightened away an armed bandit by suddenly bursting into song with: "Lay that pistol down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 29, 1943 | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

...sang a song called Just Because She Made Dem Goo-Goo Eyes . . . the audience kept applauding, to see how much further [my eyes] could pop out without something tragic happening . . . the encouragement . . . prompted me to enter show business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: 50 Years Off the Bowery | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

...Sister (Universal) first appears with her back to the camera, walking through a train. As she passes, the faces of male passengers light up as if she were at worst an improvement on Botticelli's Venus. Then she turns around. She is Deanna Durbin, ready to burst into song at the tap of a baton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 29, 1943 | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

Adding extra spin to the dancing is pert Vera-Ellen, the cutest musicomedy trick of the season. Surviving from the original score, and still giving satisfaction, are My Heart Stood Still, Thou Swell, On a Desert Island, I Feel At Home With You. Show-stopping new song, thanks to Lorenz Hart's funny lyrics and Vivienne Segal's brilliant delivery, is To Keep My Love Alive, a saga of a lady who industriously murdered her mates seriatim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Half-New Musical in Manhattan | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

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