Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...letter writer to the CRIMSON reopened the "Dirty Music" controversy about the band's action during the football games. Some complained that the Harvard band should form the letter of the opposing school and play its song. Delcevare King '95 in a letter called it an insult for Harvardmen to sing Yale songs when the Crimson was playing Holy Cross. The band's drum major, William M. Hickey, replied that the writer was "Wrong, wrong as anyone could be." He charged that the band had played a Holy Cross song during its march in, and had formed...
...students paraded with torches to the President's House to serenade Pusey and his family, as had been done in 1944 when he was picked as President of Lawrence. This time, when the news first came from Cambridge, three senior girls wrote new lyrics to familiar melodies, mimeographed the song sheets in the afternoon, so that in the evening the Lawrentians could sing, to the tune of "Surrey With the Finge...
...editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, who just went around the world with Adlai E. Stevenson. The Reverend Duncan Howlett of the First Church of Boston, Malcolm Holmes, Dean of the New England Conservatory of Music, and Director of the Harvard Band for the last ten years. Johnny Green, song writer, and head of the music department...
...Prime Minister, and of indignation to his followers back home, to discover that he had become the hit of a musical revue at London's famed Hippodrome. Marie Bryant, a lively American Negro jazz singer from New Orleans, had become a London sensation by singing a song that went...
London newspapers duly took note of the song on the occasion of Malan's arrival for the coronation, but the Prime Minister, already bent over by the white man's burden, sagely paid it no mind. Back home in Johannesburg, however, his followers exploded. NEGRESS' SATIRICAL SONG ABOUT DR. MALAN! cried the Nationalist newspaper Die Transvaler. PALACE APPROVES IT; PRESS SLANDER FOLLOWS...