Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...singers mix up the rest of the program, depending on the composition of the audience. Even individual songs vary with the audience. The last song of a lover's lament called "Vera", for example...
...Gilbert's song, "Things Are Seldom What They Seem" is a handy guide when looking at American translations of French movie titles. The title Passion For Life may draw a lot of customers, but a more accurate translation of the French title Ecole Buissoniere would be "playing hooky...
...Well," said Miss Channing, drawing her reference from her hit song--"Diamonds Are a Girl's best friend,"--"she'd like students fine--as potential diamond suppliers. Until then, she'd to go for their fathers...
Raminay! (Jo Stafford; Columbia) was a New Orleans chimney sweeps' cry. Judging from this song, neither the tunesmith (Sammy Fain) nor pseudo Blues Singer Stafford ever got within good hearing distance of the South's "Cradle of Jazz...
What's the Use? (Johnnie Ray; Columbia). Sobber Ray restrains his tears but not his gulping and gobbling of the lyrics; the song, above an "Arabian" Latin rhythm, is thoroughly ordinary. For those who can stand larger doses, Columbia has also issued his first album (Johnnie Ray, 8 sides), including Don't Blame...