Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offer to croon professionally to get money to fight the power company in court. The latter part of the picture shows Kate Smith broadcasting in Manhattan, contains close-ups of her porcine countenance illuminated by spurious geniality as she intones her trademark ("Hello Everybody") and her lugubrious theme song ("When the moon comes over the mountain, Ooom. . . ."). Sample farm song...
Sweet Moon Song (that wasn't meant...
...finale. But Night Club had verve, spontaneity, fresh harmonic and rhythmic effects missing from the run of ambitious jazz, which nowadays seems all dressed up with no place to go. Two parts at least-the melody given to the lovers and the strident "Dance on a Dime"-should make song hits as rich as Johnny Green's "Body & Soul," which Torchsinger Libby Holman made famous...
Most of the verse is from the pen of John Cabbage, but not all. District Superintendent Emil Disch contributes "Sing a Song of Can Can." Excerpt...
...whole is a very different and highly superior kettle of fish. Its original French title, Psyche, shows that Author Romains' intention was not fleshly. Though this book is a glorification of the flesh it is also a mystical sublimation of it-a kind of exegetical. philosophical, psychological Song of Songs. For plain readers there is also a plain story. Originally published in France in three parts. The Body's Rapture is issued for limited U. S. consumption in one expensive volume...