Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hipping back & forth, letting her shoulder straps fall, she does a monstrously coy "stripteaser routine." She hits Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson with a rowdy song: "I'm Salvation Sadie from Avenue A, Vending salvation and making it pay," rolling her eyes with a huge suggestiveness that is wholly antiseptic...
...clothes, servants and most of the amenities. When the play opens, he seems much less devoted to his charming family than to two pieces of bric-a-brac in the living room: a hideous crayon portrait of his day-laborer father and an oversized spittoon. The little comedy, which Song-&-Danceman Eddie Dowling chose for his first Broadway presentation in three years, shows how certain trivial experiences improve the character of Herbert Kalness. When the patrician parents of his daughter's Harvard fiancé dine at his house, his boorish conduct disgraces his family. He sneers openly at good...
...front of which is sung "The Last Round-Up," written two years ago by Billy Hill and sold last summer to the Follies. The song beat the Follies to Broadway and popularity by months (TIME...
George's version was like Dalhart's but it was the likeness that made Judge Davis pronounce George the copycat. Dalhart learned the song from an older Whitter phonograph record in 1923, made several mistakes which are also in George's version. The engineer's name was Steve. Dalhart did not understand it on the record so called him Pete. Average, in stanza three, makes no sense. It was airbrakes in the original version...
...decide was whether or not David Graves George, a spare, hollow-cheeked old hillbilly who still works for the Southern Railroad, had written the version of the "Old 97" sung by Vernon Dalhart on a Victor phonograph record in 1924. Hillbilly George claimed that he wrote the song in 1903, a week after he had helped to pry nine bodies out of the wreckage. Victor sold a million copies of the Dalhart record. George claimed royalties, estimated at $375,000, which last year a Federal district court awarded him (TIME, March...