Word: songs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...After the racing automobile had cast in the dust the body of its unhappy driver and continued to massacre innocent victims the race was not stopped and the motors continued their song of speed...
This season, the Band will introduce a new Harvard song entitled "Yo Ho," composed by R. K. Fletcher '06 who has written the "Gridiro King" and "Soldiers Field." The tune was first tried at the Harvard Club meeting in Philadelphia and meet with general approval...
...only noticeable song in the show, "I Wanna Be Loved by You," kept bubbling out of Helen Kane. Helen Kane puts a teasing twist in her delivery of "But-dut-de-dut" or "Vo-do-de-o," which she practiced first in a single act in vaudeville, later in Shubert musical comedy and most recently in Publix Theatres, with the inexpert assistance of Paul...
...prevent its being the success that its vigor and perception deserve. It seems unfortunate, though it is a minor point, that a black rascal should be required to use so frail an expletive as "he can kiss my foot." Richard Hale, in blackface, does a sympathetic though slightly sing-song interpretation of Israel Dubois...
Irving Berlin's deal was with United Artists Corp., to write a musical revue based on "Say it with Music," popular song of his first Music Box Revue (1921). Associate producer is to be George White (Scandals), who last week declared that he was quitting the stage for sound-pictures. So the genre of the proposed Berlin work is obvious, quite like the music of The Cocoanuts, which he composed for the four Marx brothers and the Follies of 1927, which he made for Florenz Ziegfeld. How much Composer Berlin will get for this work neither he nor President...