Word: tune
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Late last year, London Records found its German-language recording selling like hot cakes, decided it would sell even faster in English. Lyricist Malia Rosa, who is also May Singhi ("Ukulele Lady") Breen and Mrs. Peter (Deep Purple) De Rose, thought up simple words to match the simple tune ("Forever and ever, My heart will be true," etc.). Gracie Fields recorded it first, then Dinah Shore, Perry Como and Margaret Whiting, and within days it was a hit. Malia Rosa's explanation: "It's down to earth; it reeks with sincerity...
...most part, "The Show of Violence" recounts actual murder cases in which the question of the defendant's sanity played the major role. In all these cases, official psychiatry was grotesquely bungled. Dr. Wertham, who was closely connected with the cases, tells the stories to the tune of his bitter critiques...
...felt as though some one had just taken away his popcorn at the start of a double feature. The library had to close but time was of no matter to him. Neither was thought, and be dwelt deliciously on the experience. Never had he felt more perfectly in tune with his surroundings, and he made a mental note to tell his barber all about it. But no time for that now--the barbershop was closed, and more important, his aesthetic experience had been interrupted. Throwing the tie around his neck, searl fashion, he stalked out of Lamont...
...beat more horses than beat him. He's slow to settle down to running and easy to knock off stride. He'll give you one good run when you ask for it." Ponder was the calmest of the 14 horses that paraded out to the tune of My Old Kentucky Home...
...Bellboys, spent a pleasant afternoon at the place and then danced around the bases to the tune of 16 hits. High points of the Lowell barrage were a triple and a double by Fred Glimp and doubles by John Goldsmith, Bob Woodstaff, and Jeff Watkins...