Word: syne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outdoor stadium had been plagued nightly by the whir of airplane motors. A bolt of lightning had demolished the sound shell on the stadium stage. The final concert had ended in a steady drizzle of rain, with seven violinists sadly sticking to their posts and moistly fiddling Auld Lang Syne. There was not a dry aisle in the amphitheater...
When the clock struck the crowd sang Auld Lang Syne. Then the people began to scatter, walking in pairs or groups past the gnarled skeletons of bombed-out houses. Most of them, men & women, were in uniform. They shouted "Happy New Year!" to strangers half seen in the dark, and they sang She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain. The Yankee tune, with its words Anglicized to Hi-yi, yippee, yippee-eye, was the latest craze...
This song, to the tune of Auld Lang Syne, is sometimes sung in American Federation of Labor meetings...
Midnight, December thirty-first, will bring more to American music than countless renditions of Auld Lang Syne. From that moment forward radio listeners will be fed a new musical diet, the result of an unsettled grudge-fight between composers and broadcasters. The major networks promise to forget every one of the half-million tunes whose copyrights are held by the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. That organization promises it can survive without the royalties it asks of the radio chains. The efforts of radio's Broadcast Music Incorporated, along with the thousands of musical pieces whose rights...