Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scornfully, Eisenhower belabored the Democratic theme song Don't Let Them Take It Away: "A cracked phonograph record endlessly plays the same tune . . . Take away what...
Today, to the limit of his pocketbook, the music lover can buy 128 complete recorded operas, from Mozart to Gershwin (the biggest U.S. opera companies can mount only about 20 a season). He can have song cycles by Mahler, rare tone poems by Strauss, tropical novelties by Villa-Lobos, and scores of other out-of-the-way pieces, many of them complete strangers...
Feet Up (Guy Mitchell; Columbia). This one claims to be the first song about a baby's backside. Its good cheer has a jigtime ring as the proud father congratulates himself...
...Might as Well Be Spring (Marion MacPartland; Savoy). The English-born pianist gives this shy song just the right tone with a clear texture and a simple counterpoint...
Coco, like many a musical amateur, forgets how the songs go after the first phrases. The tricky grace note in the eighth bar of the drinking song from Traviata stops him every time; he pauses, squawks angrily, and switches to his favorite tune, Ciribiribin. Between arias, he amuses himself by watching for a pretty girl to come in, then gives a long, deliberate wolf whistle. If the girl's escort looks angrily around, Coco screams with laughter...