Word: tuning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Subscription Radio (subscribers pay 5? a day to rent a gadget for their radios; with it, they can tune in a station which carries no commercials; without it, anyone tuning the same frequency hears only a "pig squeal"). FCC has not made up its mind whether this is "technically feasible" now; meanwhile, no frequencies...
...native state, the song might have been censored with more cause. Rum & Coca-Cola burgeoned on the Port-of-Spain waterfront in 1943. Its composer was a stocky Negro calypso singer named Rupert Grant, known for professional purposes as "Lord Invader." For Rum & Coca-Cola he took a tune, with alterations, from a popular Trinidad paseo (two step), and dogged out some doggerel...
Amsterdam, who describes himself as a "well-dressed hangover" has a well-stuffed musical memory. He is the son of Max Amsterdam, who plays with the San Francisco Symphony. Morey has explained: "The tune is calypso, of course, and then again it's not. It's really just an old Jewish melody with maracas [rhythm gourds] added...
...Final tune-up for the Crimson before the annual B.A.A. Games early next month, will be a dual meet with Phillips Andover Academy at Andover a week from tomorrow...
...From an eyrie in its central tower the supreme headmaster will be able to tune in by television and telephone to any classroom. A private press will be necessary for him to issue his daily orders to his command...