Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago Rev. Arthur J. Watson, of St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Pawtucket, R.I., wrote and published two love songs-Longings and A Persian Love Song. This summer, on his vacation at Narragansett, R. I., Mr. Watson made a point of meeting Nudancer Sally Rand, who suggested he send her copies of his songs. When he got back to Pawtucket, Mr. Watson promptly dispatched them to her, said she could use them without charge in her act. Commented Mr. Watson: "I found she is a most maligned young woman: I don't know whether she is a college...
Last May Songwriters Lee David & John Redmond.'who do the scores for Harlem's Cotton Club, completed a Big Apple song for Exclusive Publications, an enterprise of energetic Irving Mills. Originally intended for the Cotton Club, the song was released when the dance became popular sold 12,500 copies. Last month Songwriters Buddy Bernier & Bob Emmerich also did a Big Apple song, which sold 12,000 copies in the first ten days after Crawford Music Corp. published it. The Bernier-Emmerich tune reached the radio first and as recorded by Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra...
Some little bands should be seen but not heard. At the top of this category perch Perch Leroy ("Stuff") Smith, a colored show-off who composed I'se A-muggin', a song whose lyrics consist of counting and grunting; and the clowning Riley-Farley Band which caused a minor musical epidemic in 1936 with The Music Goes Round & Around. Well on their way toward the same sort of eminence last week were six droll musicians of St. Paul, Minn., who play under the name of the Schnickelfritz Band and whose chief assets are two trunkfuls of funny hats...
...concert during the St. Louis convention of the National Association of Negro Musicians appeared venerable Negro Composer William C, Handy, who wrote Memphis Blues and St. Louis Blues. For the latter he was honored with a plaque, but confessed he liked Memphis Blues better. However, he said, "When a song's made as much money as St. Louis Blues you're bound to like...
...with a pumpkin head and then reveals himself as a qualified pedagog (who is about to open his own school), is revealed as this radically modified classic concludes. Of more point in Bronxville, whose progressive educational system is famous, than on a national network is Brom's final song...