Word: songful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most wistful of all the works of art was a sample of Chinese calligraphy which read: "By chance I saw a short purple jade flute; I know not how to summon music therefrom, yet in my memory rises an airy song of love...
Quartets and soloists from all over the South hopped onto the platform to take their turns at singing with piano or guitar accompaniment. In between, professional gospel song leaders led the audience in catchy religious songs not found in regular denominational hymnals. Most of the men, women & children attending had been going to gospel sings all their lives (eastern Texas averages about 300 local song get-togethers a week...
...such music, a gospel Tin Pan Alley has grown up with headquarters in Dallas. Presiding over it is bright-eyed, 60-year-old Jesse Randall Baxter, whose Stamps-Baxter Music & Printing Co., Inc. employs 50 people, does $300,000 worth of business a year. It turns out paperbound song quarterlies, a monthly magazine, the Gospel Music News (circ. 20,000), and books of gospel favorites which have sold as many as 4,000,000 copies...
Five full-time religious songwriters and two song editors grind out a large part of the some 600 new gospel songs published by the firm every year. To outside writers (who submit more than 5,000 songs a year) Stamps-Baxter pays $5 to $10 for each song published. The company also runs a school in Dallas to train itinerant song leaders, has four traveling quartets...
Included in the new orchestration are "The Princeton Cannon Song," "Going Back to Old Nassau," "The Orange and the Black," and "Tiger...