Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sustained by the royalties which the A. S. C. A. & P. has collected from radio stations and cinemansions. But President Gene Buck (who wrote the lyrics for "Sally, Won't You Come Back?'' and "Hello Frisco") made a speech which gave a brighter look to the song industry. When beer comes back, he said, people will be inspired to sing once more. Irving Berlin has expressed the same conviction: "Songwriters undoubtedly will be influenced by the return of beer and beer gardens. . . . The tricky rhythm so popular for the past eight years is dying out. Songs will...
...Noble tune even smoother and more insinuating than the overworked "Goodnight, Sweetheart." Ray Noble and his orchestra have made a record of it, letting fiddles and saxophones carry the melody against an elaborate syncopation. Leslie Hutchinson, a Negro whose records are a rage in London, sings the same song to his own free & easy piano accompaniment...
Greta Keller, a deep-voiced Viennese who like Mile Boyer brings a unique, personal quality to the simplest of songs, has made a record of "Eine kleine Reise," a song whose lyrics might not stand censoring...
...first contingent of radio crooners pounced on "Goodnight, Sweetheart," quickly wore it out. Irving Berlin's "Say It Isn't So" is another instance of a song quickly done to death by radio. Last autumn it was played on an average of 100 times a day. The American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers kept count...
...Banker Otto Hermann Kahn. He had given up writing an autobiography. He said his friend Betty Compton, with whom he is living, had finished her autobiography which "ought to be a swell book because she sure is one swell woman." Of his wife, who once in vaudeville sang his song, "Will You Love Me in December as You Do in May?" and wept in Miami recently when a cabaret orchestra played it, he said last September when she saw him off for Europe, "She's one brave woman...