Word: songful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minute CBS show last year, Burrows tried his song parodies on a mass audience. After 29 weeks, his sponsor dropped his option. Explained Burrows: "That's the equivalent of where in another business the boss says, 'I'll trouble you for your key to the washroom.' It leads to unemployment...
...democracy it seemed like a Shinto nightmare. Two thousand hard-jawed Japanese, in jackboots and military khaki, clomped down the gangplank of the transport that had brought them from prison camps in Siberia to their home in Dai Nippon. They clenched fists, bawled the Internationale and the Song of the Kolkhoz...
...Motorists in Arkansas found themselves questioned by billboards: "Have you got syphilis?" Barflies put nickels in Washington jukeboxes to hear a Negro quartet sing Put It Down, an appeal to stamp out VD. The Columbia Center was about to issue a recording by Balladeer Tom Glazer of a twangy song called An Ignorant Cowboy. Its last stanza...
Early evening crowds thronged the neon-lighted sidewalks of the Spui (The Hague's Broadway). Many of them were moviegoers, eagerly getting down from busily clanging streetcars to see Song of My Heart, Fallen Idol, or Till the Clouds Roll By. A few, however, drifted unobtrusively towards a second-floor meeting room of the bleak Café de Kroon. They were searching for peace of soul and were willing to see if two bearded, 32-year-old Moslem missionaries could show them...
Especially pointless is the sluggish little romance between Esther, a former swimming champion who has become a manufacturer of beach wear, and Ricardo Montalban, a South American polo player. Their love story produces only one good piece of entertainment: a lively little song called Baby, It's Cold Outside, which is already well established as a jukebox hit. Between the long, arid stretches of talk, Betty Garrett and Red Skelton supply some shorter sketches of acceptable slapstick. The rest of the show, including a razzle-dazzle water ballet at the end, lumbers along like an overdressed float...