Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Toscanini to Harry James, decided that it was time to call a halt on the progress of Edison's handiwork. He ordered the 216,000 members of his American Federation of Musicians to stop making all recordings and radio transcriptions after Dec. 31. He was playing a familiar tune. He had once cracked: "What do I care about science; my boys gotta eat." But this time Caesar Petrillo brought his tune to a crashing crescendo. Said he: "We stop making recordings once and for all-period...
...medium with a lot of respect. I know it's difficult. But don't forget I'm not trying to get laughs. I'm not nervous. And anyway I'm pretty good in the ducking department." On the air, he sings a more modest tune: "It wouldn't surprise me if this program wound up owing Hooper ten points...
Last year after the Princeton game, the college band alighted from its train in New York's Pennsylvania Station and marched up Seventh Avenue playing Dartmouth songs to an appreciate wayside audience. They climaxed the event by tying up traffic in Times Square to the tune of Glory to Dartmouth," says the daily, calling the episode "possibly the best example of what is meant by school spirit...
...Time. What was the tune? Jimmy Byrnes thought he could sing it in his sleep. The music was classical, written in the days of Peter the Great. Russians simply want more-more & more...
...chord. Underneath the piano, her gilded sandal began to slap the floor. And with a pixyish glance up into the smoke-filled spotlight, Nellie was on her way. From behind a shiny gold tooth came a big voice with dust in it-singing Hurry On Down, a husky tune Nellie herself wrote. First, her piano accompanied her with knotty background chords while she sang; on a second chorus, she accompanied the piano (which she plays in a style reminiscent of the musician she most admires, Duke Ellington) with a kind of happy deedle-dee-dee whisper...