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Word: songs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Liberally spiced with song-and-dance routines, the plot revolves around the story of a fan of the National Pastime who sells his soul to the devil for the chance of leading his team to a pennant victory over the Yankees. Improbable as the plot may sound, especially the part about the Yankees' losing the pennant, it does provide an interesting background for the music...

Author: By Richard E. Ashcraft, | Title: Damn Yankees | 10/17/1958 | See Source »

Instead of the traditional musical about college life, this year the Radcliffe "Drumbeats and Song" will feature a kickline of cossacks in a musical adaptation of Gogol's Inspector General, on March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Drumbeats Plans Changed Format | 10/14/1958 | See Source »

...show here was a one-composer show, too. Bream served up on his delectable seven-course lute (made by London's renowned Thomas Goff) an appetizing baker's dozen of dance pieces and fantasias by England's greatest lute-composer and song-writer, John Dowland (properly pronounced Doh-land, contrary to almost universal practice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Plucker With Pluck | 10/11/1958 | See Source »

Sour went the notes in the love song of Louis and Elaine Lorillard, he a tobacco millionheir, they co-founders and sponsors of the splashy, noisy Newport, R.I. annual jazz festival. Filing suit for separation, blonde, pretty Elaine-who met him in Italy during World War II, when he was an Army major, she a Red Cross aide-charged that Louis had locked her out of their Manhattan cooperative apartment and packed her belongings off to a nearby hotel while she was away for a weekend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 6, 1958 | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

...From a Johnny Mercer song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: On (and On) with the Dance | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

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