Word: songsleuth
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Private Ives could remember other, lazier days. A onetime Eastern Illinois State Teachers College footballer, burly Burl Ives bummed around the U.S. with his guitar, collecting folk songs and singing them to folks. In Manhattan he met Songsleuth Sigmund Spaeth, who sent him to NBC. Ambling amiably up to a mike, he started off with Robin He Married a Wife from the West. But NBC listeners that warm June day in 1940 heard no more than the opening line. "Special bulletin," the announcer broke in, "France has capitulated...
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