Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago and Boston. At the $100-a-plate dinner in Boston's Commonwealth Armory, attended by 4,200-the biggest political event of its kind ever held in Boston-George Humphrey said: "Do you remember the slogan, 'You never had it so good,' and the song with the refrain, 'Don't let them take it away'? Let me ask: Who wants to go back...
...theater, and several Ave Marias, including Schubert's, originally a concert number; Verdi's, from the opera Otello; Mascagni's, based on the Cavalria Rusticana intermezzo; and Bach-Gounod's (the Bach original was a clavier prelude, later adapted by Gounod as a love song). Also banned: Oh, Promise Me, from De Koven's operetta Robin Hood; Because ("secular"); I Love You Truly ("profane...
...Italy it is called Polvere di Stelle, and ranks with O Sole Mio as an alltime favorite. In Japan it is called Sutaadasuto, and is one number record stores are not afraid to overorder. In England, where professionals call it a "gone evergreen," no song has sold more copies. In the U.S. it is called Stardust, and is the nation's most durable hit-comfortable as an old shoe, and yet rare as a glass slipper...
...publishers are currently celebrating its 25th anniversary. Actually, the song was born in the summer of 1927, but its fame was delayed. It all began when a young Indianapolis lawyer named Hoagland Carmichael went back for a visit to Indiana University. He "spent the lonely night, dreaming of a song," and he liked it. He found a piano and picked out the tune. It was a lively little ditty, and that was the way Hoagy, as piano man with the famed Jean Goldkette orchestra, played it the next year. It bothered almost nobody until Bandleader Isham Jones recorded...
...propaganda ministry in World War II. "When we vote on the 23rd, we will be the first Germans to show that Germans want to be reunified!" The miners rose, cheered, and burst first into Deutschland Uber Alles and then into Deutsch 1st die Saar (The Saar Is German), a song unheard since Hitler's fall...