Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From "Up the Street" to "Fair Harvard," 1930 broke loose in 25th Reunion song at its Symphony Hall Pops Concert last night. Even the violinists, swatting crimson balloons with their bows, had a good time...
...fleet of fishing smacks and steamers erupted from the harbor, each bright with colored balloons and bunting, and from the upturned faces came cheers, whistles, shouts of "Long Live Bourguiba," and snatches of the Neo-Destour song: "We will die, we will die, but the country will live." Banners proclaimed: "Hail to Our Supreme Fighter." Bourguiba cried emotionally: "I'm coming back to a people that has found its soul...
...William Christopher Handy, a young bandleader from Florence, Ala., first arrived on Beale Street. Ten years later, Handy and his band were hired to play at political rallies for a young candidate for mayor. As an innovation, Handy wrote a syncopated campaign song, Mister Crump (don't 'low no easy riders here), which became a local sensation. Later, more lyrics were added, the title was changed to Memphis Blues, and the song became an international hit. Before he left Memphis for New York City in 1917, Handy wrote Beale Street Blues, which immortalized the street...
Memphians and tourists alike have deplored the change. Touring Comedian Danny Thomas added his lament to the rest. In Memphis he dashed off a song Bring Back Our Beale Street Blues, a couple of nights later sang it to 15,000 cheering Memphians. Mayor Frank Tobey took the hint, promptly presented an ordinance to the city commission. Next week, after the third official reading, Beale Avenue will once more become Beale Street...
Davy Crockett (Disney; Buena Vista) has already been seen twice on TV; its theme song brays steadily from the nation's jukeboxes; coonskin hats, flintlock muskets and some 100 other Crockett-inspired products flood U.S. stores (TIME, May 23). Now at last, the film has reached movie theaters, but its belated arrival is far from an anticlimax. Technicolor and the wide screen combine to make this classic tale of derring-do bigger and better than ever. The episodic story has been shortened by 40 minutes but not changed: Davy still fights the Creek War, gets elected to Congress, dies...