Word: songstress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind the motley songs were a motley crew of people, ephemeral but intriguing. Most amazing entertainer of the '90s was Mama Lou, gnarled, coal-black songstress in a St. Louis brothel. (Paderewski was once taken to hear her sing, became captivated.) A wellspring of melody, Mama Lou emerges as the probable source of three hits of the '90s: Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-Der-E, There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, May Irwin's Bully Song...
...Songstress Hildegarde, known to radio and New York night life as the witty and scintillating international chanteuse, will be interviewed over the Crimson Network at 9:45 o'clock in a program entitled "Chatter and Songs by Hildegarde". Network rumor has if that she will accompany herself on the piano...
...picture goes overboard with an elaborate presentation of You're A Grand Old Flag. But the simple restaging of Cohan's conception of his cocky war song, Over There, is enough to send movie audiences straight off to battle-especially as gusty Songstress Frances Langford sings it (with Johnny Get Your Gun) to 1917's doughboys. The rest, down through one of Cohan's last stage appearances (in I'd Rather Be Right, 1937), is anticlimax...
They are Copenhagen and Jazz Me Blues, Milenberg Joys and Sugar Foot Stomp; a pleasant new tune (Falling Star) which shines brightly in the mellow orbit of Songstress Connie Boswell; spirituals from the Hall Johnson Negro Choir; a jitterbug jam session by instrumentalists Benny Goodman, Harry James, Gene Krupa and others...
...glamorous Miss Kay, who is reputed to possess Broadway's most dazzling legs, will be the first perform from the evening's heterogeneous conglomeration of the theatrical world. The songstress will do several numbers in her well-known "Bicycle Built for Two" style. Later in the evening the Jones Brothers will supply contrast to this gay nineties revival with a jam session for those who like to stomp and shout while they listen...