Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...picking up a handsome payoff. Her gimmickless Mercury recording of Kiss of Fire had sold well over 1,000,000 copies, was one of the summer's big hits. She was as surprised as anybody, but there was no doubt about her success: nightclub crowds demand the song in every show; song pluggers dog her footsteps. And another Gibbs record, So Madly in Love, is laddering up the bestseller lists...
...floodlighted group around the speakers' platform, an aisle opened and the crowd saw Presidential Nominee Dwight Eisenhower, square-shouldered, striding briskly. The scattered cheering of the crowd rose to a roar, and through it sounded the bouncing blasts of the field-artillery march-The Caisson Song. Eisenhower, trim in a blue suit, was at the microphone waving and smiling, with Mamie Eisenhower at his side. The music changed to Dixie, Mamie threw a kiss to the crowd, and the crowd began to chant "We want Ike." Chairman Martin waited for a few minutes, then stepped to the microphone...
...Waited a Little Too Long (Trudy Richards and Artie Shaw; Decca). A high-pressure blues song, a vocal in Ella Fitzgerald style, and a big, swinging band. But if Clarinetist Shaw is aboard at all, he is playing too softly to be heard...
...through the eyes of the local barber. Industrious "Professor" Ben Halper (David Wayne) brings his bride Nellie (Jean Peters) to the whistle-stop town of Sevillinois in 1895, and proudly shows her his two-chair parlor. From there on, as the soundtrack resounds to the strain of the title song: 1) Nellie runs off to Chicago with a slick Hardware-Store Owner Hugh Marlowe and dies in a train accident; 2) the shop burns down, and Wayne builds a new four-chair shop with an electric rotation barber pole; 3) brash young Benny Halper (Tommy Morton) grows up and marries...
...high and skittish vocal trapeze is a notable rarity; this musical generation has Lily Pons. At an age (about 48) when most coloraturas seek the terra firma of German Lieder (where they can be expected to last indefinitely), Trouper Lily pours out her Caro Nome, her Bell Song from Lakme and other acrobatic items of coloratura literature, and gives more than a dozen opera performances and two dozen concerts a year...