Word: songed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...described only as appealing; his music uses modern devices, manages to attract the listener without letting him out-of the grip of the opera in toto. He uses chiefly a semirecitative style, but he proves conclusively his ability to write an aria with an exceptionally lovely song which he gives the daughter near the close of the first...
...Eton Boating Song...
Himber took one look at her plain little face and groaned. But she got the job, sang on Himber's Studebaker Champions program for 13 weeks. Then a song plugger told her about a big audition at NBC. Like the songstress in Frederic Wakeman's The Hucksters, she was cautioned to sing "loud and fast. . . and on the beat." About 150 other girls were trying out, too ("An acre of mink and silver fox, honey, and me in a little old suit"). But Lucky Strike's late George Washington Hill liked Fredda's hep style...
...Lord's Prayer, a ballad as voluptuous as anything in Faust, will cease to be bestsellers; organists will cease to play as voluntaries pieces that would do very well as background for Hollywood erotica." Purist Gore's plea: "0 sing unto the Lord a new song...
...suggest a theme song for Soviet Russia...