Word: songful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early-day rock-'n'-roll tune that would have made his grandfather wince), got Meyer Davis to play that as well as his other favorites (It's Only a Paper Moon, Pennies from Heaven}, joined in the singing of the Whiffenpoof Song. Surprise Guest Nat "King" Cole sang a few numbers. A hairdresser flitted around spraying hairdressing on falling female locks. General Motors' retired Board Chairman Albert Bradley gazed at the sumptuous decor (2,000,000 real magnolia leaves, real 18th century tapestries), said with a grin: "Maybe I'll take all these decorations...
Meanwhile, CBS President Frank Stanton, the industry's leading anti-schlock-meister, was the subject of a new joke in the industry. According to Variety, a revised version of a popular song is being sung this way at CBS: "Stanton on the corner, watching all the plugs...