Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...midtown Manhattan apartment, Arranger Hershey Kay and Pop Composer Jerry Herman were hard at work on a musical comedy. Milk and Honey, which will open on Broadway next month. Herman rippled a tune on the piano. "That's for Ruth's [Mimi Benzell] first meeting with Philip [Robert Weede]," he said. "Bright, but a little wistful." Kay thought a moment, concluded that the melody called for woodwinds...
...Lady," said a frowzy, spiritless panhandler, "c'n ya lemmee have a quarter to buy my little boy some milk?" As the woman reached into her purse, the city's street sounds suddenly receded, and she heard the blare of a rock-'n'-roll tune. She glanced around, at length found the source of the music: the panhandler was carrying a small transistor radio. The Frenchwoman snapped shut her purse and marched...
...late 1954; last year, including Japanese-made sets that brought the prices down to well under $10, unit sales rose to a record 8,500,000. Like other addicts, the bleatniks are ingenious in their devotion to their pastime. They attend baseball games, trusty radio in hand, and tune in on the sportscaster to be certain that the announcer sees what the bleacherite sees; sometimes the fan tunes in a second ball game and, by concentrating hard, follows both at once, even if no one else can. With his built-in portable background music, a lonely boy can entice...
After World War II, however, Newton discovered that it could tune in three television channels; it acquired two drive-in movies and an air-conditioned bowling alley. The sound of trumpets and drums seemed to fade into the summer heat. The 45-member band does not even have uniforms any more. The bandstand is long gone, and concerts are held in Themian Park, where facilities consist of folding chairs set under one dim arc of light. On a recent evening only 86 persons were moved to share the sentiments of a local farmer who stretched full length on the grass...
...Jackson, now 42, was slowed up on the club circuit because, says a friend, using Hollywood's favorite word, he had "too much musical integrity." He was also inclined, when cocktail conversation annoyed him, to slam the keyboard and announce: "I can't insult that lovely tune." For a time he wavered between jazz and a classical career, but eventually made up his mind that he would rather "classicize jazz than jazzicize the classics." With him, it hardly makes any difference...