Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prosperity. High levels of employment, wages, profits and national output always have helped the party in power. The issue could not be put more baldly than it is in the Democrats' 1952 campaign song...
Only an Orangeman, and a sour one at that, could resist such a beginning to an international romance. Frank and Breda met first in Tralee where, as the song says, the pale moon rises above the green mountain. While most of County Kerry (and a stomping herd of out-of-town newsmen) looked on, they spent a day touring the Killarney Lakes, several hours at the thatched cottage on the 15-acre O'Sullivan farm where Breda's uncle dourly examined the visitor from America and 24-year-old Breda stuffed him with tea and cakes specially made...
...Hoop-dee-Doo." After his announcement last February, the black-haired young (44) seventh-term Congressman began stumping the state on an eight-speech-a-day schedule. His "principal issue" was dramatized in a song to the tune of Hoop-dee-doo, which proclaimed: "Go with Gore-Albert Gore. He's wise and able and he's just forty-four . . ." Tennessee politicians and pundits began to say he would beat McKellar...
Wish You Were Here (Fran Warren; M-G-M). Sultry Songstress Warren sighs and moans her way through the title song of Broadway's newest musical...
Adios (Gisele MacKenzie; Capitol). A fresh voice, an old rumba and a jingling, clattering Afro-Cuban accompaniment add up to a first-rate new love song...