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Word: torches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tahitian Rhythms (Augie Goupil and his Royal Tahitians: Decca), according to the collection in this five-record album, sound like a succession of rumbas, torch songs, foxtrots, military marches and old-fashioned hillbilly jump-ups. Weirdy-of-the-month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: March Records | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

Deep Purple (Larry Clinton; Victor). Most earworthy handling of the torch-song-of-the-month-an old Peter de Rose tone poem shortened and given tongue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: February Records | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...tenor voice has long been heard on Italian Arabic propaganda broadcasts. The programs were recorded. But so popular was Abdul-Wahab's crooning even in that form that Arabs were more than willing to listen to a few words of anti-British oratory while waiting for the next torch song-often fairly anatomical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Crooner | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

Married. Ruth Etting, 42, famed torch singer, onetime cinemactress and stage star; and Myrl Alderman, 30, her onetime piano accompanist; she for the second time, he for the third; in Las Vegas, Nev. Miss Etting's first husband, Colonel Martin ("The Gimp") Snyder, is now on trial for attempting to murder Alderman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 26, 1938 | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

...Town (Les Brown; Blue-bird). New Cole Porter torch song played by a sound and rising new band of Duke University boys. The Brown band also has made the least offensive record of This Can't Be Love from The Boys From Syracuse, Richard Rodgers' most tunesome score...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: December Records | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

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