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Word: songs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about their income-tax reports, and soon grumbling citizens would be chewing up forms, muttering oaths and worse as they sent out their tax checks. Why not, asked an IRS man, "add a light touch to the annual tax chore" by turning out a spine-tingling, patriotic Official Tax Song-just like a cigarette commercial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXES: The 1040 Blues | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

...bureau was delighted, although Treasury Secretary George Humphrey's office declined to go so far as to make RWBCLYIOU an official song. Nevertheless, one TV station played the song, and soon hundreds of amateur poets peppered the IRS with lively comments and suggestions. Sample, from a Joplin (Mo.) chiropractor and amateur musician, who wrote a lament to Tax Form 1040 (The One-O-Four-0 Blues) : "I fear that I'll be tardy/ In completing Form Ten Forty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXES: The 1040 Blues | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

...joint Band and Glee Club Concert at Carnegie Hall on March 15 will feature an address by President Pusey and the introduction of a new Harvard song...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Glee Club, Band to Premiere New Bernstein-Lerner Song in March | 2/21/1957 | See Source »

...song is being written by Alan Jay Lerner '40, who wrote the lyrics for "My Fair Lady," and Leonard Bernstein '39. When requested to write the piece, Bernstein asked, "Do you want a chorale or a rouser?" and was told a rouser would be preferred...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Glee Club, Band to Premiere New Bernstein-Lerner Song in March | 2/21/1957 | See Source »

...best popular song around, though, is Mickey and Sylvia's "Love is Strange" with intriguing lyrics and an exceptionally frantic instrumental background of electric guitar notes effectively capture the spirit of the age. Songs with more --- lyrics are Hadda Brook's "Old Man River" and Bob Cort's "It takes a Worried Man to Sing a Worried Blues...

Author: By Bryce E. Nelson, | Title: Popular Music Today | 2/13/1957 | See Source »

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