Word: songful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pitch was petulant, as usual, but the lines had the lingering quality of an old torch song at midnight. "It's never, never, never," intoned James Caesar Petrillo. "That's all there is to it." And at midnight on New Year's Eve that was all there...
State musicians in classical court dress played the sonorous "drum song" and happy throngs chanted the plaintive national anthem: "Until the end of time, this is our land...
Training his infantry chorus (whose average age is 28), de Paur strives first to get them in the mood of what the song is about. Says he: "When we sing a Cossack song, we're as near to being Cossacks as we can get; when we sing the Jewish chant Eli Eli, we're as close to being Jews with their whole history of oppression and religious faith as is possible for us." Sometimes the harmony gets too close, and de Paur admits it. "I may go overboard a bit. Lord knows I deplore that homogenized effect...
...popular music, Alfred Bryan & Fred Fisher's 34-year-old hit Peg o' My Heart (TIME, July 7) was the top song of the year. But the biggest record-seller was Francis Craig's tinkling Near You, which skyrocketed a dime-a-dozen record company (Bullet) into the big money. Top-selling bands on records: Vaughn Monroe and Ted Weems. Among girl singers, Jo Stafford, for her mock hillbilly disc of Timtayshun, rated twice as high in hit-tune sales as Dinah Shore. Perry Como was easily the top record-seller among the crooners. Most surprising fadeout...
Coaxial cable is now available through Army surplus sales for what Bouyoucos calls "a song." Substitution of the more efficient cable into the entire radio system is planned for the coming months. Bouyoucos added, "Now if we could only keep the University from unexpectedly switching electrical transmitters and leaving us broadcasting over dead lines...