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Word: tunefully (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seven Lonely Days (Georgia Gibbs; Mercury). A fresh new country tune that lilts along with an engaging countermelody and plenty of bounce. A good cut above most such songs, and a pretty sure jukebox favorite along the chili-parlor circuit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Feb. 16, 1953 | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

Wild Horses (Perry Como; Victor). The tune gallops along like chase music for a western, with Como repeating over & over again that it will take more than wild horses to keep him from his bridle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Feb. 16, 1953 | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

Kathy Beaumont speaks for Wendy, and brings tears to even Hook's crusty eyes, singing, "Your Mother And Mine." The songs, in general, are good, if not spectacular. I thought that the most catchy tune was the crocodile theme, which does not have words in the picture...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: Peter Pan | 2/12/1953 | See Source »

...Coast's plantations, all owned by Africans, grew a third of the world's cocoa. And with prices at $10 a load (60 lbs.), the growers are crowding their mud huts with radios, sewing machines, bicycles and even TV sets (though there is no TV station to tune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Sunrise on the Gold Coast | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

...record into a major pop hit. Oh, Happy Day, written by a lanky (6 ft. 1 in.), 17-year-old Cleveland high-school junior named Don Howard (full name: Donald Howard Kaplow), is a rudimentary little piece. To the accompaniment of his own guitar, Donnie himself moos his happy tune with the hoarse lilt of a fogbound ferry whistle. Sample chorus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mystery Hit | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

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