Word: songful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...music and lyrics carried the main weight, however. From overture to final chorus, the songs were the strong point. All types of musical comedy song were well accounted for. "Passport and a Sigh" and "Halcyon Days" are truly fine solo numbers on the popular-song level; "Tomorrow is Manana" and "Anygnay" made exciting production numbers; and the lyrics in "The Best Things in Life Are in 'Life' " and "They Can't Get Along Without Me" made these ensembles the top numbers of the show...
Harvey was in no hurry to hawk his song; in 20 years he had written "boxes full of songs." He knew the music business inside & out. In his teens he had played mood music on an organ in an Atlantic City movie house: "I followed the hero and the villain and really got a workout...
...traditional chant of welcome and challenge. A tall, bronzed man stepped from the car and picked up the ax that the sentry tossed toward him. At this gesture (the time-honored sign to show that a visit is peaceful) hundreds of Maoris in native costume sang their ancient haka, song of welcome...
...seen "Inside U.S.A." before it reached Broadway last year, I was interested to find what had improved with a second showing and what waned. Miss Lillie, of course, improved. She has supplemented almost all of her routines with additional business, such as the swinging pearls in the Pittsburgh choral song (to watch her twirl them is worth the price of admission alone), and the Teutonic accents in the satire on the Hollywood-Chopin romances...
...tunes are still as fresh and bouncy as they were, all but one having been unhonored with the sudden but certain death of a radio song...