Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before, however, in a private sale, William Strang himself received the highest price actually paid this year-$20,000 for Twilight Song (2:01¼), champion 2-year-old of 1936. Alleged buyer: Italy's Benito Mussolini. For to this year's Old Glory Sale came European agents who effected the biggest exodus of U. S. harness horses since the turn of the Century. To Austria, Germany, France and Italy went 58 horses of the finest blood lines in the U. S. Italy was the biggest buyer, obviously intent on getting the finest stock at any price...
...Fall Guy Lahr for a wrestling bout. Actress Brady is properly taken in. Best shots: Mummer Savo bestowing an imaginary wedding present with all the airy panoply of pantomime; Swami Auer winning Wrestler Lahr's bout for him with levitation's artful aid; Barytone Lahr's "Song of the Woodman" ("What do we chop when we chop a tre-e-e? Buckets for the well, poles for American Tel. and Tel. . . . The better mouse trap, the movie mag, the mast to hoist our country's flag . . . that's what we chop when...
...back as records go the Welsh have been a singing people, rating a good voice next to royal blood, competing valiantly in song festivals, regarding music and poetry as national sports. Roman Poseidonius of Apamea noted in the second Century B.C., that the inhabitants of Wales "have poets whom they call bards, who sing songs of eulogy and of satire, accompanying themselves on instruments very like the lyre." Even hard-headed Julius Caesar, with his general's ear for music, mentioned in his Gallic War that the Druidic warriors "learn by heart a great number of verses." Scholars have...
...Fred Longshaw on a portable organ. Fletcher Henderson, who played the piano for her Weeping Willow Blues, with Joe Smith on the cornet, calls this the greatest blues record ever made. Careless Love is W. C. Handy's arrangement of what is almost a U. S. folk song. Trombone Cholly, with the late Trombonist Charlie Green playing among Bessie Smith's "Blue Boys," is a classic for all connoisseurs of the "sliphorn." For Backwater Blues, James P. Johnson, teacher of "Fats" Waller, furnishes an able piano accompaniment. Only three of the twelve sides in the Bessie Smith Album...
...Heine would have appreciated the joke which time has played on him. When the Nazi censors expunged his works, along with those of all other non-Aryans, from the roster of German literature, they were confronted with the unfortunate fact that he was the author of "Die Lorelei"-a song without which no German beer party is complete. The poem perforce remains in Nazi songbooks. its author blandly listed as "unknown...