Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lyrics written in Moscow and a melody plagiarized from the song of the Lorelei, East German Premier Otto Grotewohl announced a big turnabout in Communist tactics in East Germany. "The Politburo, in these decisions," said the announcement, "has in mind the great goal of German unity." Some of the decisions...
...season's final concert of Washington's National Gallery Orchestra last week was no place for cold-blooded Yankees. The west court of the gallery rang with the words and music of such songs as The Bonnie Blue Flag, The Conquered Banner, the sentimental love song Lorena, and for a finale, Dixie, with a 40-voice chorus giving the rebel yell...
...went its 60-minute way, alternating solos and choruses. The Confederacy recited the slow, nostalgic Lorena-a Northern song, curiously enough (Chicago, 1857), but later a Southern favorite...
...Sweet Mystery of Life, Rose Marie, I'll See You Again, At the Balalaika, Indian Love Call (with a pretty blonde, Gale Sherwood, dressed in an unlikely, scantie-type Indian costume). There was also, of course, the Eddy specialty, Short'nin' Bread. For this last song, Eddy prepared a light-hearted parody which set out to prove, successfully, that the words to the song are pretty ridiculous. In all, he sang 13 songs, and most of them brought thunders of applause. The response, as Eddy himself admitted, was "electrifying...
Send My Baby Back to Me (Judy Garland; Columbia). Songstress Garland wallops out a bouncing song with lots of charm; the second side, Without a Memory, has all of the old vibrating Garland warmth...