Word: waltz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jersey Joe Walcott, his first defense of his heavyweight boxing title; in Philadelphia. The flatfooted old pappy guy, 38, in a weary waltz, outboxed Ezzard Charles, 30, a onetime titleholder and clearly the most reluctant challenger in heavyweight history...
Songstress Peggy Lee has always liked the old (1932) Rodgers & Hart waltz Lover ("Lover, when I'm near you," etc.). She gets a picture in her head when she hears it: "The French Foreign Legion is riding out into the desert. They start off at a moderate speed. Then the leader raises his whip and swings it in the air. and they start to go faster and faster...
Though Peggy's dream leader-brandishing a whip-sounded more like Eddie Arcaro than a spurred cavalryman, Decca was impressed, agreed to let her record the old waltz as a triple-gaited mambo with a 37-piece accompaniment. In its first two weeks, Peggy Lee's Lover has sold 250,000 copies...
Johann Strauss: One Night in Venice (Vienna State Opera soloists, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and chorus of the Bregenz Festivals; Columbia, 4 sides LP). This charming romance of disguise and intrigue is the ninth of the Waltz King's operettas; it sparkles with some of the same gaiety as the other eight. Performance and recording: excellent...
...fact, it has nearly everything an operetta should have. It has dancing--ballroom, ballet, and can-can, all done with devastating elan. In particular, the team of Gilrone and Star shone with their smooth pas de deux in the Merry Widow Waltz...