Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like to comment on what seems to me to be a lack of responsibility on the part of the Harvard cheerleaders. At the Dartmouth game the Band had to sit at one end of the stands where it was practically impossible for the cheering section to figure out what song they were playing. The cheerleaders, as usual, made a weak effort to lead singing by waving their arms half-heartedly. They gave no indication of what we were supposed to be singing...
...monsoon/ If things get any worse, we'll be fishes soon" gurgled Eliot Hall last night, to win Radcliffe's annual Song-Fest. The contest was originally scheduled for the Quad, but Eliot prognosticators had the only slickers and umbrellas in the crowd, so it was moved into Cabot...
...singing Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?, but a 20-year-old Indiana girl, mortally wounded in a shooting, asked to have Stardust played at her funeral. Three years later the record business was stirred almost as deeply, when RCA Victor dared to release the song on two sides of a pop single, one played by Benny Goodman, the other by Tommy Dorsey. It was Victor's best seller in 1936 and '38, was still going strong a year later...
...Europe failed to dislodge Stardust from the public soul. A Colorado vacationer climbed to the top of Lookout Mountain, where he discovered eight boys and girls around a campfire, eyes closed, singing in close harmony, with the professionalism of Glenn Miller's sax section. Their song: Stardust...
Even peace was wonderful for Stardust. In 1949 readers of Metronome, venerable U.S. music magazine, voted it "best song of all time." Last year Stardust's kiss was still an inspiration, or at least a consolation: one of the most intricate of modern jazzmen, Pianist Dave Brubeck, played a tune at Manhattan's Basin Street that only two members of the audience recognized as Stardust, while in the dance hall around the corner, the ten-millionth blonde said. "Oooooh, listen, honey. They're playing our song...