Word: tuneful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chime-Ringer I. H. Auld, who had to answer many of the indignant telephone calls, grew weary making his explanation. Like many another popular song, especially of the oldtime barroom variety, the tune of "How Dry I Am" was originally a good old hymn. Chimer Auld said he had merely been playing "O Happy Day" to which the words...
...Like To Take a Walk and One Little Raindrop (Victor)-Mr. & Mrs. Frank Crumit (Julia Sanderson) with jaunty accompaniments. When Your Lover Has Gone and Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone (Victor)-Gene Austin has an easy way which records perfectly. His tunes this month are worthy of him. Dance Records: I Surrender, Dear and Sing Song Girl (Columbia)-Mickie Alpert presents ingenious arrangements with Helen Rowland singing the first in a pleasing, husky way. I'm Happy When You're Happy and Maybe I'm in Love With a Dream...
Competitions open to all Seniors for Class Day ticket designs and for words to the Baccalaureate Hymn close Monday. The hymn may be based upon any familiar tune, such as "Fair Harvard". "Onward Christian Soldiers", or "Ten Thousand Times Ten Thousand...
...procession, all moving to this rhythm, the snaking of parties of gayly costumed boys and girls, single or double file. All on foot?and stepping. Roustabouts from the docks, cane cutters from the fields, women from the tenderloin, ragamuffins from everywhere, all swinging to the beat of that endless tune, to me then nameless. Groups of gleeful boy volunteers furnish the music. Home-made instruments?bongos of nail kegs or other kegs with ends knocked out or of hollowed log chunks, manacas, claves of all descriptions, some attached to frying pans. Swinging hilarity and frenzy, all having a glorious time...
...youth meets a girl on the train who falls in love with him. He re-turns to her after adventures in Tin Pan Alley. These include advances made by the cold-hearted mistress of a music pub- lisher, committing malapropisms which cause him to be the butt of Broadway tune-sharpers. Finally he gets $2.500 for a song, because he has given the publisher a good excuse for getting rid of his girl. Jack Oakie makes the talkie almost as funny as the play by Ring Lardner and George S. Kaufman, which was the most hilarious...