Word: songed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chromatic catcall from the president of the National Association of Schools of Music for "debasing his art." Pooh, retorted jovial Heldentenor Melchior. If the musical stuffed shirts wanted more blatant examples of undignified monkeyshines, he could refresh their memories. Once, he recalled, he sang a hillbilly song on the Fred Allen show; another time, he danced an Apache number in which he impersonated a female who could have mopped up on Briinnhilde...
...Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Adrian Rollini). Weems soon started a band of his own, specializing in what he calls "businessman's bounce." His College Inn audience last week was mostly people in their late 30s or early 40s, who got nostalgic memories when Weems played his old theme song, Out of the Night, and could remember the last time Heartaches...
Undaunted, the U.T. is following up with two more musicals on Saturday. In "Meet Me in St. Louis," Judy Garland sings the Trolley Song and is dewy-eyed with not-so-bad results. "The Three Caballcros" shows Walt Disney as a good neighbor and a bad movie producer. There's some fine music, but that was already tiresome a year...
...Veronica Lake smothered it with her mink coat, was forced to appear in furs borrowed from a friend. Frank Sinatra was bedded in Acapulco, Mexico, with intestinal trouble and a high fever. Crooner Dick Haymes went to bed for a week with sinus trouble. Trombonist Jack Teagarden, whose theme song is I've Got a Right to Sing the Blues, was sued for divorce. Errol Flynn, back to Hollywood from Jamaica for the birth of his second wife's second child, had a broken foot (from tennis, he said...
Included in the collection are such favorites as "Boola," the "Cannon Song," "Dartmouth's in Town Again," and "As the Backs Go Tearing By," and, of course, "Fair Harvard." The band also relaxes for a moment to play a touch of "Rhapsody in Blue" for the Elis...