Word: waltzing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...birthday cakes. But the music men had a grander present: a full keyboard spinet, jointly built by the nation's leading piano manufacturers of woods, metals, ivory and wool gathered from nine of the United Nations. The President sat down, obviously pleased, and played the Little Fairy Waltz, a tinkling tune he had learned as a boy back in Independence...
...Kentucky Waltz (Rosemary Clooney; Columbia). With only a handful of states accounted for, it looks as though Tin Pan Alley plans to force U.S. music lovers to waltz their way through the rest of the 48. Je T'Adore (Bette Chapel; Mercury). Miss Chapel's cozy, loose-upper-plate style gives distinction to a run-of-the-mill intime ballad...
...brassy treatment of "Stars and Stripes Forever." In between, the orchestra played the usual Pops potpourri ranging from Tchaikovsky to Irving Berlin. The musicians, all members of the B.S.O., played well on the whole, with the exception of their rather lackadaisical reading of Komzak's "Girls of Baden" Waltz. The highlight of the program was Milhand's clever little Fantasy for piano and orchestra, with the young and brilliant Eugene List as soloist...
...large has yet to hear of the Page Milk Co., but since those dairyish days four years ago, only the deaf and the dead have escaped hearing the big, plain, healthy voice of "Patti Page." Three of her records, Tennessee Waltz, Would 1 Love You and Mockin' Bird Hill, are among the top eleven on the hit parade; since its release last fall, her Tennessee Waltz has sold some 2,300,000 copies-a feat which has won her a gold medal with a diamond in it from grateful Mercury Records...
Mockin' Bird Hi!l (Patti Page; Mercury). Patti-duetting with Patti, thanks to the marvels of modern electronics-cooks up another waltz, country-style, for customers not yet fed to the teeth with Tennessee Waltz...