Word: songed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seven-girl team of Radcliffe commuters with a banjo and an 11-stanza ditty set to the tune of "Hair of Gold" won the second annual Song Contest at the Annex Quadrangle last night. They will keep the prize--a silver loving cup--for one year...
Honorable mention went to Eliot Hall's singers, who fitted their lyrics to Trinidad-type calypso music, and to Barnard Hall. Judges of the song-fest were Dean Mildred P. Sherman, Barbara Connolly '49, president of the Annex Choral Society, and William P. Russell, assistant director of Choral...
...Eliot had assembled his picture of the contemporary world in The Waste Land, which, like most of Eliot's earlier poetry, had the immediacy of a headline, the memorableness of a song that is easy to hum because it is reminiscent of other songs...
...added attractions at the Radcliffe song contest to be held on the steps of Cabot Hall Tuesday night are coffee and doughnuts, and a doorprize--one of the famous "Radcliffe Records...
...music predominated, but he final song was "Strange Fruit" and Josh was no longer a "troubadour" as the program announced. "This song needs no introduction," he said. As he sang, he became a witness for the Negro people, a person with something to say, not an entertainer with a guitar. He told of the mournful South where men are still hanging from the trees, the "strange fruit" that is everyone's poison. Cheers and clapping followed the guitar off the stage but the praise was all of Josh White...