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Word: songs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...marry again. Her third husband-to-be: a 48-year-old Bessarabian-born engineer and radio repairman named Alperovici, whom she calls simply "Honest Boris." "The only thing Boris cannot do," said Gracie, "is sing. We went for a walk this morning and he started singing a Bessarabian love song. I had to tell him to shut up." But, she added, "you should just see his chest. Talk about hairy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: On the Job | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

...Northwest logging country, in backwoods towns like Ohop, Duckabush and Cle Elum, the jukeboxes were booming last week with a new song that seemed ground out on Paul Bunyan's grindstone-the one that was so big that every time it turned three times it was payday again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Frozen Logger | 12/31/1951 | See Source »

Died. Allan M. Hirsh, 73, Virginia-born sewer-pipe manufacturer with an old claim to fame: as a college sophomore (Yale '01), he wrote Boola-Boola, the football song; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 31, 1951 | 12/31/1951 | See Source »

Slow Poke (Arthur Godfrey; Columbia), a fast-moving hillbilly song about a girl (or a fellow) with all the time in the world. A surprisingly straightforward Godfrey version of a number that is breaking out all over the bestseller lists, and climbing hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Dec. 24, 1951 | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

...Life's Companion (Rosemary Clooney; Columbia). A song that asks the soap-opera question: Can a man who is only 33 find peace & contentment? Clooney's answer: love me and you will never grow older than 33. The other side, Why Don't You Love Me? is a bouncing bet for the hit parade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Dec. 24, 1951 | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

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