Word: sung
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Singing Marine (Warner Bros.). Having successfully sung his way through West Point and Annapolis in previous films, Dick Powell now tries his voice on the U. S. Marine Corps. As a shy, likable Arkansas rookie he is drafted for a weenie roast on the beach at San Diego, innocently sings the leathernecks' sweethearts into acquiescence. For this patriotic service he is rewarded with a trip to Manhattan and a radio tryout on what is obviously Major Bowes's amateur hour. Managed by Aeneas Phinney (Hugh Herbert), he embarks upon a U. S. radio career as the "Singing Marine...
Gardner Middlebrook '38, manager of the Glee Club estimated that this Class Day Concert will be the five hundredth concert which the club has given since its reorganization in 1919. Since then it has sung from St. Louis, Missouri, to Venice, Italy; from Montreal to Washington, D. C. Its audiences range from street urchins to rulers of nations. Highlight of every spring is the joint rendition of "St. Mathews Passion" with the Radcliffe Glee Club and the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
...Lombard Street in Philadelphia. He was a guitar player and a marvelous whistler, and it was he who originated the melody and at least the title of Listen to the Mocking Bird. Winner only set down the melody and arranged it after it had been played and whistled and sung over to him by Milburn. Winner may have furnished most or all of the words as published, but the life of the song springs from the melody...
Written and arranged by Alice Hawthorne." Winner used "Alice Hawthorne" in publishing a number of his songs. The title page of the song as published by Lee and Walker, under the copyright date of 1856, reads: "Listen To The Mocking Bird-As sung by Rose Merrifield-Written and arranged by Alice Hawthorne...
...their neighbors in Philadelphia it seemed as if the Gianninis made music all the time. The father, Ferruccio, was an oldtime opera singer who could boast that he had once sung with Patti. The mother, Antoinetta, played the violin. Daughters Euphemia and Dusolina sang. Son Francis had a cello when he was big enough to wield one. Son Vittorio practiced endlessly on the piano...