Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Blasé (Phil Harris; Victor). A collection of ditties grunted by the most expressive monotone on records. In the name tune, and such oldies as Stars Fell on Alabama, he develops effortlessly all the sillier qualities of pop-song rhymes...
Love Affair (Felicia Sanders; Columbia). An intense lament with a fine tune, sung in a rough-tender style that puts Songstress Sanders right on top of the vocal heap...
With the paper work done by outsiders, Cabot and his staff are able to spend all of their time in the study of investment prospects. In the last fiscal year, their research paid off to the tune of a 5.05 percent rate of return on the historical cost of investments, and in the year before that, the income equalled 5.08 percent--the highest in 20 years. During Cabot's five-year career, he has increased the General Investments more than $104,000,000, which is a phenomenal rise of over 50 percent...
Since Raitt's voice is forceful and pleasant and Miss Paige's acting is the same, they make a good team. But, on the show's best ballad, "Hey, There," there is a more unique coupling. Raitt booms the tune into a dictaphone, allowing one of those duets with himself which now pervade popular music. This technique is not new to composers Adler and Ross who have had more experience in Tin Pan Alley than on Broadway. Their songs, including "I'm Not At All In Love," "Her Is," and "I Love You More," will probably do double duty both...
Lowell Houses was fortunate to have the services of Howard Brown as choral director. He turned what has sometimes in the past been a rather slipshod group into an ensemble of the highest caliber--always in tune, enunciating clearly, precise in all entrances. And conductor Michael Greenebaum stirred the orchestra to level of performance distinguished by its accuracy and warmth...