Word: songed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fred Fisher, the composer of the current hit song Peg O' My Heart [TIME, July 7]. ... In view of your ever-conscientious attempts to report the pertinent facts as honestly as possible, it would seem important to clear up the rather glaring m's-statement "Sick and no longer able to turn out hit tunes, he hanged himself five years ago." At the time when he was no longer supposed to be able to turn out hit tunes, his song Whispering Grass was having great success in this country, later becoming a World War II hit in Great...
...hung with bunting. We inquired what was happening and were told that there would be a procession out to sea; so we got into a vessel and went along. As we returned, we saw the people on the piers first jeering, then cheering, and the fishermen broke into a song to the Madonna. I asked a fisherman, 'What's going on now?' and he explained that Fiumicino's new clock had just been inaugurated and that they had had 'a terrible time with the leftists...
...cavalry borrowed the name. Says Webster: " 'Fiddler's Green' is the imagined Elysian field of sailors and vagabond craftsmen, where credit is good and there is always a lass, a glass, and a song...
...Bach minuet. After that and a selection from Mozart's Magic Flute, her teacher had to ask the audience to hold their applause until the first part of the recital was over. Altogether, Margaret played 14 pieces, including Schubert's Ave Maria and Brahms's Cradle Song...
...Coventry last week, Gracie swaggered onstage before 1,000 General Electric employees, promptly pitched into a nostalgic Noel Coward medley and an Afrikaans song in "Lancashire French." Then she reverted to her old rough & tumble with a comic song called He Forgot to Come Back, wherein she quakingly called for "Hennerry." Only her celebrated cartwheels had been dropped from the prewar formula...