Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...party mascot no longer seemed to be the donkey, but the 2?-a-lb. hog. The almost unanimous party line was contained in the phrase "20 years ago." The Democrats' hope is to stimulate the fear that the Republicans would (in the words of the official campaign song) "take it away." At times it seemed as if the Democrats had nothing to cheer but fear itself...
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...only U.S. song whose original theme was deemed sad enough: Annie Doesn't Live Here Any More...
When Dean is drafted, he smuggles his civilian song & dance partner Jerry into the paratroops with him to help put on a company camp show. Jerry, posing as a paratrooper (in a trick breakaway uniform), all but breaks up the division by asking his sergeant to tuck him into bed, captures a general during maneuvers, jumps from a plane without his chute and lands on Dean's parachute in midair. The screenplay of Jumping Jacks is lighter than air, but the picture may divert those moviegoers who relish Dean's singing and Jerry's uninhibited simiantics...
...takes some of the credit: the music was a familiar old tango, El Choclo; she decided the brooding rhythm made it "sound like a dirge," souped it up with a beguine tempo. But she also credits the lyrics. They are not too cheerful ("You record a happy song today, and you lay a bomb"*), in fact they are downright masochistic: Though it burns me and it turns me into ashes, / My whole world crashes without your kiss of fire...