Word: songsmith
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...proud papa was Songsmith Frank Loesser, a Hollywood Tin Pan Alleyite whose specialty is producing catchy, shortlived jingles about leaky faucets (Bloop, Bleep) and slow boats to China. But Baby was not even written for public consumption. Loesser ran it off five years ago as a comedy number for himself and his wife, Lynn, to sing at parties. It was surefire when his songstress wife, with appropriate handwringing, began singing "I really can't stay . . . I've got to go 'way," and Loesser answered pleadingly, "But Baby, it's cold outside!" After that the pace picks...
...Songsmith Loesser thinks of himself as a kind of folk musician of the jukebox, capturing "topical feelings." He likes to think that he avoids "idealizing the romantic. Of course, I slip every now and then, and turn out something like Moon of Manakoora...
Night and Day (Warner), purporting to be a biography of popular Songsmith Cole Porter, is another of Hollywood's celluloid shrines to the living...
Capp got the idea a year ago, discussed it with Sinatra and friends. Charlie Ross, president of Barton Music Co., agreed to publish the song. Songsmith Sammy Stept (Don't Sit under the Apple Tree, etc.) wrote the music. Capp promised to draw the radio characters straight if they in turn would treat "Daisy Mae" and "Li'l Abner" as real people. Radio, which often lives in a comic-strip world, did not have to change pace...
Five years ago Holiday Inn was a musical note in Songsmith Berlin's melodious mind. He wanted to drape a Broadway show around a series of songs for U.S. national holidays. Holiday Inn provided him with the right framework. According to its episodic plot, Singer Crosby turns his rural retreat into a roadhouse on every holiday in order to make country life pay, and to give himself and Fred Astaire a chance to sing and dance...