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Word: wimoweh (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1959-1959
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...battery-operated recorder, flicks it on in buses. subways, cabs, restaurants and elevators. His recordings of street singers, songs by national groups, church services in Harlem have provided the basis for nearly a dozen pop songs, including Sippin' Soda (Guy Mitchell), The Pendulum Song (Nelson Riddle), Wimoweh (Gordon Jenkins and the Weavers). In his midtown Manhattan apartment, such singers as Pete Seeger, Josh White, Harry Belafonte have sampled Schwartz's 1,500 hours of recorded tape, including more than 5,000 songs from some 40 countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sounds of the City | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

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