Word: walkin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Fred E. Ahlert, 64, popular songwriter (I'll Get By, Walkin' My Baby Back Home, Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day); of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Last week it looked as though the song might have been an error instead of a hit. Leathery-faced Guy Howard, 59, who wrote a poignant book, Walkin' Preacher of the Ozarks (TIME, Nov. 20, 1944), about his itinerant evangelism in the mountains, had heard the song and gone to law about it. The piece, he charged, was a "burlesque on me and maligns my work and Christianity." In St. Louis federal court, Evangelist Howard asked $1,000,000 damages from RCA Victor, Decca and Capitol record companies...
...This here song," the late Huddie ("Lead Belly") Ledbetter used to explain, "was made about a man an' a girl was walkin' along one Sunday evenin'. Jus' befo' this girl an' man got to de house, she said, 'You ask my mother for me, when you get home.' The man tol' her, 'All right' . . . An' he went back to de girl an' she say, 'What did mamma tell you?' He looked at Irene-her name was Irene-an' here what he said ..." Then...