Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Silver Dollar sheet music and record sales were booming in Britain (more than 100,000 copies of both), and it was being scratched from dozens of radio programs by BBC officials, who have ruled that no pop tune can be played on the air more than six times...
Second song writer: "The tune's O.K., but you're all off on the lyries. Why not call it "Three Little Words." It would go like this. 'Three Little Words, that's all I long for, is three little words, hum, hum, humm...
Sensitive Ears. In Chicago, when Lilly B. Johnson put a nickel in a jukebox and got his tune right away, a stranger who had already put in a nickel pulled out a .38 revolver and shot Johnson in the neck. In Andover, Mass., William Albert Trow willed West Parish Congregational Church $5,000, specified that it was to be used in part for eliminating "motor and other noises" from the church organ...
...criticism. Even after the war Ally's course was smooth, although it occasionally quoted anti-Russian comments in speeches by British government officials. Since Ally's two-ruble selling price (50?) paid for little more than printing costs, the British government had to subsidize Ally to the tune of ?50,000 a year, but thought it well worth it. The paper averaged 30 to 40 letters a month from its Russian readers, mostly laudatory, until last year. Then Ally's troubles started...
Until his early 20s, Andre Kostelanetz never allowed a Tin Pan Alley tune to get into his rigidly classical musical diet. Born in St. Petersburg 49 years ago, he studied piano at the conservatory, became an assistant conductor at the Mariinsky Theater before he was 20. But during the civil strife of the early '20s, Kostelanetz grew restless...