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...played with excruciating slowness. The star is a charming Viennese nightclub chanteuse named Liane, who sounds less like Polly Peachum than an operetta shopgirl mooning over an archduke. The record does have its high spots, notably the duet between the prostitute Jenny and her pimp. To a wistful tango melody they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Odyssey of Mack the Knife | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

...look at him and seemed frankly baffled. The band struck up a rumba, and Cantinflas, stomping his feet to the rhythm, moved in with his cape. For a while the bull seemed to paw the ground in time to the music, too. Then, as the music changed to a tango, Cantinflas glided in and made a series of passes without ever losing a step or even treading on the bull's feet. Finally Cantinflas pulled the bull's tail and planted a symbolic death sword in his neck. The arena crowd roared at the burlesque of "the noble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Coast to Coast | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

Life of the Party. In Chicago, Bank Robber Samuel Hochstetler confided to FBI agents that in six weeks he had spent $5,000 of the $31,000 loot for dancing lessons, had already mastered the fox trot, the waltz, the rumba, the mambo, the tango and the samba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 27, 1954 | 12/27/1954 | See Source »

...John Hewer) who represent themselves to each other as awfully poor. "I could be happy with you," they duet, "if you could be happy with me." Between whiles, girls wearing frocks with waistlines near their shins mince about squealing genteel idiocies ; everybody makes remarks of a piercing obviousness; couples tango and Charleston and go in for every form of jazz-age contortions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Oct. 11, 1954 | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

...come from requirements of staging, action and pace, and as a result relatively few show tunes become pop hits. But last week, no fewer than three tunes from The Pajama Game, Broadway's brightest musical of the season, were tweaking jukebox and disk-jockey fancies: a slinky, satirical tango called Hernando's Hideaway was high on the bestseller record lists, a rowdy novelty called Steam Heat was also on the lists, and the show's big ballad, Hey There, suddenly showed signs of becoming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Show's the Thing | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

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