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...Along Without You Very Well (Dick Todd; Bluebird). The Canadian Bing Crosby sings the month's torch song the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: April Records | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...Titipu into a dance hall before latecomers are in their seats, makes Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing and Peep-Bo carry on like three little maids from reform school, and finishes Act I in an uproar when Katisha busts in, no hatchet-faced termagant, but an eye-rolling, hip-shaking, torch-singing Red Hot Mama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Apr. 3, 1939 | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

Tahitian Rhythms (Augie Goupil and his Royal Tahitians: Decca), according to the collection in this five-record album, sound like a succession of rumbas, torch songs, foxtrots, military marches and old-fashioned hillbilly jump-ups. Weirdy-of-the-month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: March Records | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

Deep Purple (Larry Clinton; Victor). Most earworthy handling of the torch-song-of-the-month-an old Peter de Rose tone poem shortened and given tongue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: February Records | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...tenor voice has long been heard on Italian Arabic propaganda broadcasts. The programs were recorded. But so popular was Abdul-Wahab's crooning even in that form that Arabs were more than willing to listen to a few words of anti-British oratory while waiting for the next torch song-often fairly anatomical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Crooner | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

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