Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator Steiwer went a passing mark for his cannonade but talk of nominating him for Vice President was heard no more. A memorial to him remained, however, in the song sung to the tune of Three Blind Mice with new verses contributed daily by eager Republican poets. Examples...
...three females seemed last week bores, if not frumps; but these Radical Socialist and Socialist males continued strong for "The Red Marquise" and her potent friend, Minister of Defense Edouard Daladier, called "The Bull." Although almost as painful a subject as the new Minister of National Education's song about the flag, the new Minister of Defense's hospitable Marquise Rouge was last week a key to understanding the new Cabinet. Its political supporters, 381 Radical Socialists, Socialists and Communists, are not such austere champions of the masses but what they, like many British Laborites, are glad when...
Whether or not he is elected 33rd President of the U. S., squinty-smiling Governor Alf M. Landon of Kansas was last week indelibly imprinted upon his countrymen's memory as The Man Who revived the tune Oh! Susanna as a national theme song. In the course of six days at Cleveland, bands at the Republican National Convention played Oh! Susanna 1,800 times by official count. Into a class with The Sidewalks of New York and California, Here I Come passed the old banjo ballad written by Stephen Foster nearly 100 years ago and first sung into...
...Republican parody were Democratic versions recalling the twelve long years of Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. But Oh! Susanna was not revived by accident. Governor Landon's efficient handlers had searched carefully for a tune to set him to, a tune that could surely be plugged into another Banana Song. After discarding a "We Want Landon" chant and the somewhat tedious Kansas University song, The Crimson and the Blue, the Landonites studied the merits of I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby but finally passed it up as dangerous, catchy though the air is. Official campaign words...
...called Palmdale, twelve miles away. Palm Springs' exteriors were built on the Paramount lot. Among the highly agreeable music interlarding this inoffensive picture is The Hills of Old Wyoming, which Wyoming's delegates to both the Republican and Democratic National Conventions chose last week as their official song...