Word: songed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Head Start. When he got back, Cole was waiting for him with a contract for his song. Capitol made a sneak recording of it, backing Cole's voice with a rich, fluty orchestral accompaniment. Fascinated by its haunting melody (it sounds something like an old Marlene Dietrich special), disc jockeys in three weeks have played it into No. 3 on Variety's jukebox hit parade. Other record companies last week scrambled to catch up. Unable to use Petrillo's men, Columbia recorded Frank Sinatra against a chorus of singers; Decca did the same with Dick Haymes. Nature...
With an estimated $20,000 beginning to roll in from Nature Boy, Eden is feeling quite a pull from the West. He still likes to sleep outdoors (he is married, expecting a child), but is now pestered by reporters who ask him about his song, his beard, and what yoga means. He is about to give up his bicycle for a car-something hard-seated like a jeep...
...Alley publishers are already thinking about grinding up five other songs he wrote (Nature Boy is one of a suite of six). They don't always like his lyrics, but they can fix that. Sample (from Brother Song...
What had made life so new and different for the Turners? Last fortnight Mr. Turner, by naming a song that was being played on ABC's Stop the Music, won $17,000 worth of prizes...
...With It? (Universal-International) is a cinemusical about a tent show. The show's supercarnival acts, which had a rich midway glamor on the Broadway stage, have only a cheap midway glare when filtered through the screen. But Song &-Danceman Donald O'Connor comes through brightly as a sort of low-glazed, hickory-cured Danny Kaye...