Word: melodye
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Relying on two glockenspiels for the melody and gaining terrific power from its percussion section comprised of a pair of cymbals, several drums, and a pail, rendered notable offerings of "Ten Thousand Men of Kirkland" and other well-known Deacon marching songs.
This summer, said "Kosty'' last week, he discovered that "other leaders, men I respected, too, were playing popular music in such a complicated style it was hard to follow the melody at all. . . . We had reached a point where a lot of leaders were arranging their programs to...
Broadway Melody of 1938 (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Mrs. Caroline Whipple (Binnie Barnes), wife of a confection tycoon, owns a horse named Star Gazer, beloved by Sally Lee (Eleanor Powell) whose father bred him. With the horse, Manhattan-bound in a stockcar, Horsetrainers Sonny (George Murphy) and Peter (Buddy Ebsen) find...
No doubt it is partly the glitter of its memorable predecessors that dulls this version of MGM's big annual musical. Unhappily and obviously, another reason is the remembered rather than memorable elements in its story: the routine of a leading character leaving home to follow a horse, first...
Close harmony was not lacking. Abetted by the Shoreham Hotel's blonde Accordionist Ida Clarke, Senator Byrnes, who opposed Barkley's election, intoned When I Grow Too Old To Dream, and in a sentimental mood Alben Barkley himself, without rising from his seat, gave his favorite rendition of...