Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Songs & Remembrances. Last week, after wars, tragedies, triumphs and 38 years together, Ike and Mamie Eisenhower celebrated their wedding anniversary in the White House. Ninety-three guests, members of Ike's West Point class (1915), their wives and a few widows, came for dinner on the anniversary eve. Through dinner the scarlet-coated Marine Band orchestra played nostalgic songs from the days when Ike was courting Mamie, e.g., selections from The Chocolate Soldier; the conversation was full of sentimental remembrances. The song that stopped the table talk, stretched Ike's grin to capacity and moved Mamie to clap...
...June 14 Music section, you made this statement: "So far, nobody has written a song called Sliding Along on a Timken Tapered Roller Bearing with You, Baby." Probably one of the reasons that no such title has been given to a song is the fact that Timken tapered roller bearings, unlike old-style friction bearings, roll rather than slide. This is one of the features that will make it possible for the railroads to get a return of 22% on their investment when they equip all freight cars with roller bearings...
...Pajama Game (John Raitt, Janis Paige, Eddie Foy Jr., Carol Haney, Stanley Prager; Columbia LP). The song list of the George Abbott-Richard Bissell hit has a few nifties: Hey There, Her Is, There Once Was a Man (a satire on hillbilly tunes), and Hernando's Hideaway (a take-off on tangos...
...Genius of Art Tatum (Clef LP). Five recordings produced by Jazz Impresario Norman Granz in testimony of Tatum's famed skills. Pianist Tatum, 44 and nearly totally blind, can make any song sparkle with his dextrous, imaginative ideas. Spontaneously, he ripples off complex chords, melodic figures and moods that should make the most devoted Liberace fan cry with shame. Some of the 34 titles: The Man I Love, Body and Sold, Yesterdays, My Last Affair, This Can't Be Love, and I'm Coming, Virginia...
Called Baseball in Music and Song, the folio contains 14 reproductions of spirited polkas, quadrilles, marches and ballads from the middle to late 1800s, all dedicated to the glorification of baseball...