Word: songful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most welcome oldtime newcomers: Fred Astaire, warming up for a song-and-dance series with a nifty new partner, Barrie Chase. And it was all guaranteed by NBC to come in a superattrac-tive package-600 hours of live color (an average of two hours a day), 100 big "specials," more emphasis on public affairs...
...Cowboy Song...
...gypsy woman first sang the song to Folklorist John A. Lomax in Fort Worth, and in no time he made it one of the most famous cowboy songs in the land. Traveling in a model A Ford, with his young son Alan as an occasional companion, he took the song with him on his far-ranging folk-song safaris in the 1930's, twanged it at campfires and from college platforms. Two decades later in Dublin, carrying on his father's research, Alan Lomax heard Irish Folklorist Seamus Ennis sing an almost identical Irish lay about...
Music "Hunter Lomax has recorded Pygmies in the Middle Congo, basket weavers in France, geishas in Japan, Saturday night warblers in English pubs (but avoided Wales, which is "a tragedy; everything is Methodist hymns and Handel"). He has mapped the world folk-song families, found surprising links between them. The pinch-voiced, samisen-playing geisha finds an echo in the Spanish mountain-farm laborer thumping a ximbomba drum; "the lonesome, death-ridden American cowboy is a blood cousin to the raga singer in India...
...adults hanging about on street corners outside. Boys choosing up sides for basketball chose Negro players. Negroes and whites ate together in the school cafeteria, though not at the same tables. At assembly, whites and Negroes, getting less tentative by the minute, stood up and sang the school song On, Fulton High to the tune of Working on the Railroad (which many of their fathers, whites and Negroes...