Word: stardusts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME hopes its reporters know stardust when they...
...played a promising new song called With a Song in My Heart. Bing Crosby was touring in vaudeville. That week the stockmarket crashed, and Manhattan's Hotel Roosevelt introduced a Chicago band to its customers. The band, fancily titled Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians, played Stardust and My Blue Heaven. They still...
...later performance for 4,000 more WAACS in Des Moines's Coliseum, pandemonium re-exploded. Hope left town with Stardust in his eyes, murmuring, "A comedian's Shangri...
...time ragtime and jazz appear on the U.S. scene, Author Gilbert's heart is no longer in his work. He complains (choosing to ignore such items as Begin the Beguine, Stardust, Can't We Be Friends): "Melody is the blood stream of song, and for 25 years it has grown thinner and thinner." He catalogues Yes, We Have No Bananas not as healthy U.S. tomfoolery but as a sign of "sultry sophistication, jittery and befuddled...
Smooth numbers show no spurts of popularity with numbers as old as "Stardust" consistently being purchased today. Hot jazz tends to be less definite with tunes changing position almost every day as a fad as boogey-woogey or songs like "He's My Uncle" grasp undergraduate imaginations...