Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hall. There was a strange quietness about the room; the rustle of skirts and the clatter of silverware were the major sounds. Voices seemed hushed and shy. Because of the dearth of students many waitresses stood against the wall in idle talk. Spontaneously, above everything, there burst forth a song. In a moment all the girls were caroling to the diners. Applause rewarded this serenade; but that was not enough. As the remnants of the House were leaving, in a magnificent antiphonal gesture, they sang a carol for the waitresses...
...Messrs. Shubert). Between old-fashioned operetta and newfangled musi-comedy is more than a gulf of years. Nevertheless light opera still goes on, for even in Manhattan many a theatregoer would still rather swoon to a waltz than tap his restless feet to the beat of a topical song. For such oldsters-by-preference, the Shuberts' second Christmas present, Three Waltzes, was as good as a plum pudding ablaze with Napoleon brandy...
...York's Yiddish theatre district on lower Second Avenue, which has produced such fine actors as Paul Muni, does not often bring forth a popular song. Last week it had apparently turned the trick...
...Kammen Music Co. published a song entitled Bei Mir Bist Du Schön, from a Jewish musical comedy (I Would If I Could) by Sholom Secunda and Jacob Jacobs. The song went practically unnoticed until last summer Johnny & George, a Negro piano team, played it at a Jewish summer resort in New York's borsch belt, then brought it to a Broadway night club. There it was heard by Saul Chaplin and Sammy Cahn, two East Side boys who had written Posin', Shoe Shine Boy, Rhythm Is Our Business, could recognize a song when they heard...
...even before Harms could get the song printed, Bei Mir Bist Du Schön (You Look Beautiful to Me) had become a hit. Decca had two records out: the Andrews Sisters', which had already sold 10,000 copies, and Glen Gray's. Brunswick had released a Russ Morgan version, and at Manhattan's Paramount Theatre the crowd called for four encores the first time Morgan played it. Victor had Guy Lombardo's recording of the song ready this week in time to be put on sale with the sheet music. First day's sheet...