Word: songful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Company officials protested that they had violated neither the spirit nor the letter of their contract with the union. Labor Leader Gordon Preble, a former steelworker, was adamant. The union, he said, was not impressed by "the song & dance about this guy's mother and sister being persecuted and murdered...
...however, does not mean much to a Jap songwriter. Because of a record shortage and slow sheet-music sales, Hattori makes only about 7,000 yen ($16.66) a song. Last month he wrote 20, including several for his movie biography, Eternal Enthusiasm...
Copa Calling. In August 1947, Mindy left Whiteman to try a solo act in nightclubs. Her manager recalls: "What charm! She delivered a song as if it were a baseball." Mindy's delivery improved rapidly; in quick succession she sang at New Orleans' Hotel Roosevelt, Cleveland's Mounds Club, Miami's Clover Club...
...Says Mindy: "Oh, I know I'm lucky I'd gather be singing than anything els in life. But sometimes you wonder when you're going to get something out of i for yourself. Dresses and traveling am song arrangements cost so much. I had more spending money when I worked for the candy store...
...Song of India (Columbia) offers a sepia-tinted view of Sabu, onetime Elephant Boy, presiding over a whole jungleful of exotic fauna &. flora. He is especially fond of tigers, which he fondles like outsize tabby cats. He is on intimate terms with all the other jungle beasts and is determined to protect them from the wholesale poachings of a progressive Indian prince (Turhan Bey) in search...