Word: songful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...animated rag doll bounded onto the television screen, ogled the camera lens, wagged a pair of aileron ears at the audience and wrapped his rubber legs around the lilt of a song. Ray Bolger, the greatest U.S. comic dancer and a veteran of 30 years in show business, was back at work in TV-and just in time to inject some merriment into TV's procession of tired clowns. In a $1,500,000 musical potpourri called Washington Square, a sentimental paean to Manhattan's self-consciously picturesque Greenwich Village, Hoofer Bolger is making his second attempt...
...father's grave: "That is always the way. We go off and fight for four years and they (the Yanks) kill him at home." Humor--co-stars Richard Egan and Debra Paget gritting their teeth as Elvis sings "Yam Ganna Fix Dis Old House," a rock-and roll song (presumably about the South's reconstruction period). And, of course, Tenderness--Elvis (writhing from the hips as he dies): "Is Everything going to be all right...
Anita O'Day has also made a LP of standards with arrangements by Buddy Bregman. Her rendition of "Honeysuckle Rose" is a classic, with only a Bass accompanying her for half the song. Bregman's other arrangements are run-of-the-mile, but it is nonetheless a pleasure to hear Anita take off on fine tunes like "I Can't Get Started" and "No Moon At All." (Verve...
...Dogpatchers on General Bullmoose's formal ball, Kidd has created one of the memorable shambles scenes in Broadway history. And for the show's rousingest music, Jubilation T. Cornpone, Kidd has made a packed stageful of bodies rock with movement while their voices are raised in song...
Died. Victor Young, 56, composer who wrote the scores for more than 300 films (Around the World in So Days, The Quiet Man, Shane), turned out song hits (Sweet Sue, Ghost of a Chance) on the side; of a heart attack; in Palm Springs, Calif...