Word: tuning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said to myself, 'Why. that sounds like a shrimp.'" Twelve-year-old Susan's tune promptly became Minuet of the Shrimp, one of 300 tunes, poems, dances submitted by 60 sixth-grade pupils of Cincinnati's suburban North Avondale Public School for inclusion in a group cantata, a sweeping experiment at musical education. Last week they had the thrill of performing their work with a professional symphony orchestra. The project began a year ago, when the Cincinnati Symphony played at one of its popular children's concerts a cantata called Moon Rocket, a musical trip...
Help Me (Vic Damone; Columbia). This title sounds as if it belonged to a screamer, but the tune turns out to be a rather pleasant and intimate plea: "Don't just stand there and stare, help me." Damone sells it smoothly right up to the end, where he can't resist peddling a raucous note...
Tender Trap (Pablo Beltran orchestra; Victor). A high-swinging version of a low-swinging tune, recorded, of all places, in Mexico. The band sounds something like the old Lunceford band, with its happy-go-lucky saxes, its smooth trombones and its nice beat, but adds its own modern flavor...
Tutti Frutti (Pat Boone; Dot). Most of the lyrics are composed of the title phrases plus the syllables "aw rootie," a tune written to .be sung by a virile but slack-jawed male...
What's Right for You (Lena Home; Victor). Lena's all aquiver about Topic A, agog with its possibilities, awash with its goodness. The tune is dressed up by some suggestive pianistic titters...