Word: songful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Miss Missouri, belongs to the whisper-from-the-navel school. Her incendiary reading of such ballads as I'm in the Mood for Love and I Only Have Eyes for You will bump the pulse, the album guarantees, "of any red-blooded American man." Toni's signature song (Call Toni) sets the pitch: "I'm all yours and ready to do/ Anything you want me to/ Just dial TONI oh-five-six-eight-three...
...Chipmunk Song (The Chipmunks; Liberty). No escape from this one. Songwriter Ross (Witch Doctor) Bagdasarian's clamorous fable about a trio of quarreling, caroling chipmunks sold more records (an estimated 3,500,000) in a shorter time (five weeks) than any other disk in the past year and probably in recording history. The "chipmunks" are actually Bagdasarian's own voice recorded at varying speeds. Having screeched their way through Christmas at the top of the pop charts, the little beasts seem destined to meet the Easter bunny...
...strike, which had cost nine New York dailies $30 million. Said the Times: "The sounds dear to the newspaper man's heart, the clattering Linotypes, the thump of the make-up man's mallet, the thunder of the presses, the soft swish of the emerging newspapers: this song will not be silenced...
General Electric Theater (CBS, 9-9:30 p.m.). Lightfoot Fred Astaire, who triumphed in his NBC song-and-dance show last fall, comes back to television in a straight acting part. His vehicle: Man on a Bicycle, a comedy about a gallant rogue...
Flower Drum Song. A routine but opulent and attractive Oriental excursion by those skillful Occidentals, Rodgers and Hammerstein. With the freshest lotus leaves on Broadway, Singers Miyoshi Umeki and Pat Suzuki...