Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...break after three years of trouping in the U.S.'s lesser nightspots. With a big voice (she can sing without a microphone) a handsome, expressive face and an adventurous spirit, she was still trying to decide between straight dramatic singing and belting out songs with a "progressive" band when the break came: Columbia Records' Percy Faith asked her to fill in the vocals in his version of Song from Moulin Rouge. Last week, after 17 weeks on the bestseller lists, the record had sold 1,000,000 copies, and Felicia Sanders had become a pop-music name...
...after due reflection: "To find something similar to Edith Piaf's Parisian material but in the American idiom, a song with a story about people." When she finds a song she likes, she works on it like an actor boning up on a script. "A song deals with a person," she tells herself. "I have to get an image of that person and convey that image to everyone else." Songstress Sanders also tries for "a sort of sexiness which accepts sex without having to emphasize...
...tactless, without being consoled, nursed, celebrated or criticized by all ... When we return to Villigst we may be excited about our work, happy about our possible success and achievement. We then feel we need evening prayers as we need our daily bread. In praying, in singing a religious song, in listening to the Bible, we regain our balance. We recognize our limitations, and humbleness before God sets our human pride back into the right perspective...
Witness President Nathan H. Knorr of Brooklyn set off the eight full days of song, prayer and preachment in Yankee Stadium with a fiery sermon. "Jehovah's Witnesses are one united flock!" he cried. "They will follow their King-Shepherd in His pastoral work until all of His sheep of this generation have been found and gathered out of all nations into the one flock, there safely to abide and attain endless life in Jehovah's new world...
CANADA Dry's advertising agency, out to meet the competition of Schweppe's quinine water (TIME, June 8), issued a calypso-beat song, Keep Cool, to the disk jockeys and jukeboxes. Sample lines...