Word: tuning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Noel Coward, who got royally booed by the boys from Brooklyn, then conquered even them with Mad Dogs and Englishmen. But it was greying, ingratiating Maurice Chevalier, with his bawdy wisecracks and old U.S. song hits, who pulled the roof down. When the band struck up the same exit-tune the Canteen plays in Manhattan -Good Night, Sweetheart-the boys balked at leaving. They had finally found just what they wanted-something both redolent of Paris and reminiscent of home...
Last week the latest listener-polls, as they have for years, put Crosby among the dozen most popular attractions in radio. The entertainment trade-sheet, Variety, considered him front page news. He had been a top-rank songster since the season of 1930-31, when a current pop tune was Crosby, Columbo and Vallee. Other singers have come and gone. Last week Crosby, 41, had never even been away...
...have lost much, and been sorely tried. But you have also received much. The sun of liberty first shone over this part of the country. It is we, up here, who are privileged to start the new Norway. It is we, up here, who must call the tune. If it rings weakly, at least it must ring true and pure. Then it will blend, one day, with the great symphony which shall well out over the land...
...liberated Leyte, where Filipinos have been singing God Bless the Philippines to the tune of Irving Berlin's God Bless America, a soldier troupe performance of Composer Berlin's This Is the Army last week tried out a brand new number in the U.S. idiom: Heaven Watch the Philippines...
When a popular song has been dead for 15 years, its chances of revival are none too bright. But last week the 1930 tune, I'm Confessin' (That I Love You), stood high on the hit-tune lists, had just rolled up 350,000 new sheet music sales. Confessin's sensational second wind could not . be wholly credited either to its sweetly sentimental melody and lyrics or to spontaneous popular demand. The old song's resurgence was rather the triumph of an intricate, bizarre and fiercely competitive profession called "song plugging...