Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story was making the rounds last week in Belgrade's taverns. It concerned a legendary gypsy named Branko, who was trying to get into the Communist Party. "Well," he was told, "if you join, you will have to put aside all thoughts of wine, women and song." Branko nodded gloomily. "Beyond that," the party man went on, "you might even be called upon to give your life if the party demands it." "Well, why not?" sighed Branko, signing the pledge. "Who in hell would want to keep a life like that anyway...
...Sunset Island No. I in Miami's yacht-clogged Biscayne Bay, Marianne Reynolds, who got $2,000,000 and a divorce in 1952 from Tobacco Heir Richard J. Reynolds Jr., sang a $35,000 swan song. Soon off to luxuriate in California, Marianne said farewell to Florida in the style to which Reynolds had accustomed her. Under the bleak gaze of ten gate-guarding cops, 160 servants, two firemen and some 15 dinner-jacketed plainclothesmen who mingled but did not fraternize, about 300 guests jammed for warmth (evening temperature: 48°) into two satin-draped tents pitched on Marianne...
That year Randall Thompson '20 announced that, according to a survey of all college music departments in the association of American colleges, "over a million copies of Dr. Davison's song arrangements in sheet music have been sold", and that bound volumes of these arrangements had found their way into 300 colleges...
Protests against the new Glee Club arose for the last time around 1926 when it refused to sing in the annual intercollegiate Glee Club contest because it considered the contest's prize song, which all competitors had to sing, "inferior music" and "sentimental mush...
...song, entitled "Lamp in The West" with music by Horatio W. Parker and words by Ella Higginson, began in this vein...