Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tunesmith Jimmy McHugh was celebrating his silver anniversary as a Tin Pan Alley success-and all of Tin Pan Alley seemed to be joining in the celebration. Disc jockeys, bandleaders and crooners were steadily plugging the tunes the nation once knew by heart: I'm in the Mood for Love, South American Way, On the Sunny Side of the Street. But, as usual, no one was plugging them harder than rolypoly Jimmy McHugh himself...
...recall, met his present parishioners one day last summer when he went for a walk by the River Han and saw the swarms of ragged urchins clawing over the piled-up refuse for scraps of coal or tin or paper that could possibly be sold. In time he made friends with them and, while awaiting the arrival of fresh loads of garbage, told them Bible stories and taught them a few hymns. After a while he moved into a packing case at the dump and began to build his church. When TIME told his story, he figured that $100 would...
...unseasonably hot night. At the Wallace rally in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, William S. Gailmor, a onetime radio commentator who now rattles the tin cup for Henry, boomed at the 19,000 faithful: "A few blocks down the street they are going to show a picture which should be boycotted by every right-thinking person. So you know what...
...tango tunes put together by the Tin Pan Alleys along the Plata, the one locally regarded as No. 1 is La Cumparsita. Gerardo Hernán Mattos Rodríguez, a Uruguayan, wrote it in 1916. An architecture student at the University of Uruguay, he had seen a group of boisterous fellow students, evicted from their rooming house, pick up the tables and chairs and march out in a noisy procession (cumparsa). That gave him a title. He quickly knocked out a doleful melody and a set of lyrics that were soon replaced by those of a rival lyricist...
...Tin Pan Alley publishers are already thinking about grinding up five other songs he wrote (Nature Boy is one of a suite of six). They don't always like his lyrics, but they can fix that. Sample (from Brother Song...