Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...musicians swung into "Sugar Rose." Fats squealed with delight. "Git ready fo' de jam now!" The boys got ready, and went into a wild jumble of hot rhythm. A clarinet player popped up somewhere and made his instrument screech an improvised sing-song. Fats, his tremendous bulk bobbing in time, shouted hoarse encouragement to his boys. With a final, incomprehensible flourish by the saxes, the jammin' stopped. "Dose cats can take yo' socks right off yo' shoes," gasped Fats...
...people we are proud of our ancestors and it would not be out of place for Hertz to reflect that his forefathers were probably pulling an oar and singing The Song of the Volga Boatmen while the Pennsylvania Germans were building a safe haven for the likes of him. To Hertz, Nertz, Mertz...
Something to Sing About (Grand National) is nothing to make a song about, but it returns two-fisted Cinemactor James Cagney to his theatrical nonage of 1924, when he was just one of the boys tapping routines in vaudeville. Though still unable to startle the dance world, he does unveil a new, more versatile Cagney. As Terry Rooney, Manhattan band leader, he is called to Hollywood for the great opportunity. He leaves his girl, Rita (Evelyn Daw), to wait until he has demonstrated once more how a star is born. Studio specialists on clothes, coiffure, and voice view him with...
Sentimentalists will enjoy the song "Afraid to Dream." Most people will enjoy the entire proceedings except for the not uncertain feeling that they have seen it all before. The sleepy will complain that there is too much noise...
Before they were out of sight of Wake Island, rolling seas separated the two boats, and neither Captain Tobias-who had previously lost two ships-nor his men were ever found. The longboat with its spindly mast and tattered sail struggled on. The concert singers cheered the company with song. Eighteen days from Wake Island, the forlorn, pitiable band, too weak to row or bail, burned black by sun, grounded their boat at Guam. Only account of this extraordinary voyage seems to have been published in the magazine, The Friend, which Colonel Bicknell ran across...