Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-round pastime which calls for old clothes, field glasses and an abundant knowledge of bird lore. They know, for instance, that a robin sings, not because he is happy, but because he has just staked out a claim to a clump of trees or a bride, and his song is a chirp-on-shoulder challenge to the rest of the robin community...
...name, sometimes playful, often with her claws showing. Her voice is equally unpredictable--a mellow huskiness which rises to a wail like fingernails on a blackboard. When she stalks on stage, it is not to win the favor of her audience. Instead, she toys languorously with her show-stopping song "Monotonous" and the result is electrifying...
...spirited. "They Like Ike" the visionary number of 1949 has been replaced by "The International Rag," evidently less partisan. "You're Just in Love," which held up the show for six encores in New York, is repeated often enough to satisfy even the most dogged. And the first song, "The Hostess With the Mostes' on the Ball" is a good-natured introduction to Miss Merman and the spirit of the film...
...numberless Midwest floors from sedate hotel dining rooms to beer halls she learned how to use her voice, but she kept her unsophisticated manner. "Everybody in their life goes through different romantic phases," she decided. "All you have t do is remember real living, and put it into the song." By last winter, 22-year-old Joanie Babbo-known as Joni James-had graduated to a place among the top recording songbirds in the U.S. Three of her hits nestled simultaneously on bestseller lists: Why Don't You Believe Me?, Have You Heard? and Your Cheatin' Heart...
...Love Melvin (MGM) is a Technicolored song & dance show with little to offer except the animated presence of Donald O'Connor. Cast as a photographer's brash assistant whose main job is lugging flashbulbs, O'Connor falls head over dancing heels in love with a pretty Broadway chorine (Debbie Reynolds),and boastfully promises to get her picture on the cover of his magazine. For the next several issues, photographs of prizefighters, puppies and horses keep appearing on the magazine cover with increasingly monotonous regularity-but never one of the chorine. Does Debbie ever...