Word: tuneful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...usual because of the child murders-form a furtive posse. The next time you see the murderer he is staring into a cutlery shop window. There, framed in knives, he sees reflected the figure of a little girl behind him. He turns around and starts toward her, whistling the tune that is connected in his sick mind with what he wants...
Many a catchy tune exported from Europe on phonograph records becomes in time a best-seller in the U. S. "Goodnight, Sweetheart," which Ray Noble wrote in London, ran such a course.* So did "Parlez-moi d'Amour," the fragile song which Lucienne Boyer introduced in Paris, and "Zwei Herzen im ¾ Takt" which plump, be-monocled Richard Tauber introduced in Berlin...
This winter smart Londoners danced to "What More Can I Ask?", a Ray Noble tune even smoother and more insinuating than the overworked "Goodnight, Sweetheart." Ray Noble and his orchestra have made a record of it, letting fiddles and saxophones carry the melody against an elaborate syncopation. Leslie Hutchinson, a Negro whose records are a rage in London, sings the same song to his own free & easy piano accompaniment...
...Senator Couzens who had been staying in Washington talking into the ear of R. F. C. hurried home, lunched with Henry and Edsel Ford, sat on a platform with Henry Ford and watched 200 children of Dearborn dance and chirp to the tune of "RockaBye Baby." Their faces did not move at the lines...
...that those people were waiting to hear a song, "42nd Street." They had heard it, perhaps, as the Playgoer did, over the radio the night before. Even in the stage show, the best sequence was some hotcha dance routine by three white-draped cuties impelled by the tune "That Sentimental Gen'lman From Georgia" . . . and you can keep right on playing it, right on playing...