Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stephen Foster, U. S. composer of the song Way Down upon the Swanee River (properly called Old Folks at Home), had never seen Florida's Suwannee River about which his song was written, got the misspelled name from an old map. Once the song was written it was impossible to correct the spelling, because the tune calls for a word of two syllables, and the real Suwannee has three...
Solidarity Forever is the theme song but far from the theme of the United Automobile Workers. C. I. O.'s third largest union* and most obstreperous problem child. Last week Solidarity Forever boomed from the throats of 1,000 U. A. W. men convoked in rump convention at Toledo by the supporters of the five U. A. W. officials who were ousted two months ago as "Communists" by Union President Homer Martin (TIME, June 20). This rump meeting enthusiastically passed a resolution asking John Llewellyn Lewis to appoint a receiver of their riven union with full powers to patch...
...Ralph Perez, successively a Calypso specialist for Columbia and Decca. The Lion, however, proved the most censorable of the Calypsonians, all of whose records Mr. Perez must submit to British officials before they may be sold in Trinidad. The Lion's share of the 1937 carnival was his song Netty-Netty, voted the most popular by the public, but banned on the island. On sale in the U. S., its words are allegedly unprintable, and at all but a few points effectively inaudible, or in Caribbean patois. But verbal understanding is not necessary to convince hearers that...
...recalls the remark of a Dublin professor ("And the worst of it is that trumpery diseases which we never knew we had lift their heads and obtrude themselves the moment you go on the water-wagon"); when he praises the Irish language ("Ireland is either a Land of Song or a Land of Slugs with a trend to become a Land of Shylocks. Let Song save it . . .") ; when, making his devout way up St. Patrick's mountain, he forgets St. Patrick to muse on the beauty of the human foot (of the barefoot girl pilgrim in front...
SUWANNEE RIVER-Cecile Hulse Matschat-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Best of the Rivers of America series (previous volumes: Kennebec, Upper Mississippi) Suwannee River more than lives up to its folk-song fame. (Although Stephen Foster never saw the Suwannee, a stone to his memory stands at its source.) Author Matschat describes the primitive, fantastic swamp country of Georgia and Florida, the swamp folk and their legends, like a naturalist with poetic imagination...