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Word: songful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
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...fellow comedians and politicians; and his Los Angeles TV shows during the Democratic Convention made him the most entertaining voice within reach of a microphone. This fall, new territory will be opened up by Sahl when he launches a national tour, with the Lime-liters providing a folk-song counterpoint to his humor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMEDIANS: The Third Campaign | 8/15/1960 | See Source »

...call it insensitivity when he attaches to a simple melody all the florid decorations of a style five hundred miles and years away. One may call it lack of imagination when he treats a powerful song of death as casually as if it were a nursery rhyme. But one becomes aware with increasing discomfort that unerringly to perform such malalignment of styles with such flashy banjo technique Mr. Seeger must be a much more calculating man than one wants to hear simple music from...

Author: By Dick Pollinger, | Title: Pete Seeger | 8/11/1960 | See Source »

Arriving in Hollywood to collaborate with top-ranking Director George Stevens on a movie version of the life of Christ, snow-capped Poet Carl Sandburg, 82, was in an exuberant mood over his maiden effort in cinema. Some time Guitar Strummer Sandburg already has some ideas about a theme song for the four Evangelists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 8, 1960 | 8/8/1960 | See Source »

...retain me as her personal manager." ¶Enrique Magrina, 38, was a law student at the University of Barcelona when he met his wife, Victoria de los Angeles, in 1942. Although she was studying voice, she had no real professional career until Magrina persuaded her to enter an international song festival, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In Sickness & in Wealth | 8/1/1960 | See Source »

Kenneth Macmillan's choreography is refreshingly artful. He has contrived a marvelously quasi-erotic rock 'n' roll dance in slow motion, and an amusing street scene combining car-dodging and song. Director of photography John Wilcox has handled the camera well at all times, and used his medium creatively. Those scenes with the histrionic darling of American screendom, Dixie Collins, have been overexposed, giving a flatness, lack of contrast, and washed-out appearance that are an amusing contrast to the breasty, brash, bleached blonde played by Yolande Donlan...

Author: By Jacques Easton, | Title: Expresso Bongo | 7/28/1960 | See Source »

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