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Word: songs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...East Germany's real cool cats were concerned, those Communist cubes over at the Ministry of Culture must have flipped. The music for the Lipsi, the German Democratic Republic's newly authorized, ideologically correct song-and-dance craze, sounded like a South American nightmare with a boogie beat. It was nothing but a hopped-up minuet in 6/4 time -bogue*, man, real bogue.-The dance steps themselves looked like a mixed-up rumba, laced with old-fashioned open steps that led to a kind of shimmying amble-ticky, man, real ticky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUKEBOX: Ticky, Real Ticky | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

...Once he was working for the Jews, and fell for this girl. One day he called at her home and her parents threw him out. Wrote this song about...

Author: By John R. Adler and Paul S. Cowan, S | Title: Hoot, Brother | 4/18/1959 | See Source »

They sat down in a corner trying to look modestly in-group. One of the leader-organizers asked if anyone had a Protest song he wanted to sing...

Author: By John R. Adler and Paul S. Cowan, S | Title: Hoot, Brother | 4/18/1959 | See Source »

...that isn't a Protest song," one of the sweater set explained, trying to keep his eyes on her face...

Author: By John R. Adler and Paul S. Cowan, S | Title: Hoot, Brother | 4/18/1959 | See Source »

...wrote this Protest song about Harvard," shouted one of the leaders. "Songs like it should be sung in every Harvard Club across the country...

Author: By John R. Adler and Paul S. Cowan, S | Title: Hoot, Brother | 4/18/1959 | See Source »

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