Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President's Favorite Music, went on sale with Mamie and Ike smiling happily at buyers from the cover of the album. The President's musical taste: eclectic. Its range: from Johann Sebastian Bach's We All Believe in One God to Do Not Forsake Me, theme song of the movie High Noon...
Helen Gahagan Douglas, onetime actress and San Francisco Opera Company diva before she became a three-term (1945-51) Democratic Representative from California, said she was returning to her first love, would give a Manhattan song recital at the end of the month...
Suddenly the Israeli Arabs fell silent as those on the Jordan side of the wire sang a mournful song. The bridal procession, just about to turn away, halted. As the song faded, the gun-toting border guards of both sides all at once seemed to have shoelaces to lace up or some other reason for averting their eyes. Quickly Zariphe reached across the barbed wire to Fatma...
...Song & Dance. These unscheduled bits were topped with great helpings of pre-fabricated entertainment: trumpet-voiced Ethel Merman belting her show tunes through the rafters, Irving Berlin's trembling version of his own song, Ike for Four More Years, the pear-shaped tones of Nat "King" Cole's pop singing, the high reaches of the Met's Patrice Munsel, the stylized chitchat of Mutual's old-time Cinemactress Constance Bennett ("I don't feel well; I feel frazzled...
Even then, Hibbler used to panic the teen-agers by his sudden, disconcerting swoops from a high note to a sub-basement tone. His second big break came a year and a half ago, when Decca signed him up and he recorded a song called Unchained Melody. It became a No. 1 hit. Now he asks $3,000 and up a week for appearances, plays the gaudiest spots in the biggest towns. Between dates he stays at home in Teaneck, N.J. with his wife, listening to the radio. "They tell good stories, those soap operas," he says. "Songs have good...