Word: songed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wistful--because the student composer is still trying to get his song published, and a tear, because like most products of amatuer composition, this particular melody is not lost for a story...
Franco Mele, one of Rome's leading night club pianists, was struck to the core by the persuasive lilt of Burrier's song, and when $35 and a carton of American cigarettes was added to the call of the muse, he made a 9 piece arrangement of "Lost Without...
...boys picked up the phrase from a Brooklyn street squabble. They turned it over in their minds a bit, then, with piano, guitar and bass, tooled up a tune. By nightfall, "Nicholas, don't be so ridic'lus" was a song...
Last week, the Three Flames-Pianist Roy Testamark, Guitarist George ("Tiger") Haynes and Bull Fiddler Averill ("Bill") Pollard-who seem to create their special brand of jived-up patter and song by spontaneous combustion, were cooking on all burners in a Manhattan basement nightclub, the Village Vanguard. Backed by some solid piano and rhythm, the Flames ("How hot can you get?") are now setting a newsstand to music ("I read Esquire for fashion, Police Gazette for passion"). In two hours they turned out a tune that New York City's Department of Health used as a singing commercial during...
With Tiger, the Flames started burning brighter. Haynes jots down phrases that he says come to him in his dreams. His latest, already made into a song: Ya Ess Goony Gress. On stage, the Flames seem to be amusing each other, and don't seem to mind if the audience listens...