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drumbeat
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drumbeat \Drum"beat`\, n. The sound of a beaten drum; drum music.
Whose morning drumbeat, following the sun, and keeping
company with the hours, circles the earth with one
continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of
England.
--D. Webster.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The beating of a drum. 2 The sound of a beating drum. 3 (context figuratively English) forceful support of a cause.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Drumbeat was a BBC television series that aired every Saturday from 4 April to 29 August 1959. It was the BBC's answer and rival to ITV's TV series Oh Boy!, though as the latter finished on 30 May 1959, for most of its run Drumbeat had no comparable competition.
It launched the careers of singer Adam Faith and composer John Barry, songwriters Les Reed, Johnny Worth (alias Les Vandyke) and Trevor Peacock. Among its guest stars were Petula Clark, the Lana Sisters (including Dusty Springfield), Billy Fury, Dickie Valentine, Paul Anka, Cliff Richard and Anthony Newley.
The show had a number of resident bands and singers: Bob Miller and the Millermen, the John Barry Seven, Vince Eager, Sylvia Sands and Adam Faith. Danny Williams, the Raindrops (featuring Jackie Lee), the Kingpins, and Roy Young also appeared regularly and Trevor Peacock was the compere for 16 of the 22 episodes.
The producer-director was Stewart Morris, who went on to enjoy a long career in television. For a while, he was married to resident singer Sylvia Sands.
The series was broadcast live with the exception of the episode of 18 July, which was telerecorded. None of the episodes are known to have survived.
In June 2010, Silva Screen Records released a CD comprising the original LP and EP recorded in 1959, together with a few related tracks.
Usage examples of "drumbeat".
Between the rattled passages of drumbeats there was a pause filled by hundreds of voices.
There was something curiously menacing in the repetitive drumbeats that seemed to come from nowhere.
For the rest of the day the Welshmen worked glumly on the structures of their fortress, watched in vain for any reappearance of the natives, and after sunset began to be haunted again by the monotonous drumbeats from down the river.
People yipped and cheered all the dancing and pageantry around the Sacred Canoe, and Sweetgrass Smoke knew from every change in the drumbeats and voices just what was happening at any moment, because she had lived through more First Man festivals than anybody.
After an hour of tramping through the pitch-black forest to locate the source of the intermittent drumbeats they heard, they had decided on another course of action.
Most especially not now, when the dwarf clans were at war, their drumbeats throbbing late at night and the smoke from burned-out burrows hanging in the air.
Blaring brass against a background of drumbeats, an attempt to make dreadfully trite melody sound important.
Suddenly her thumping heart, throbbing chest pains, and the panicked footsteps overhead all melded into one giant drumbeat that pummeled her brain.
One of the Rasoumovsky quartets played in the background, rising eloquently above the drumbeats of the rain: as we soared high, Beethoven gave us a mystic noise, a second cellist unaccountably seeming to join the group, even an oboe at odd moments, a transcendental bassoon below the strings.
Eleanora lay in a spell, trapped by the symbolism of the animistic rite as the drumbeats increased and the singing shifted through patterns of atonality.
He could hear harping in it and fiddle, the hollow drumbeat of a crowdy crawn and a breathy flute.
A few leaders using drumbeating and patriotic rhetoric to convince the masses of things no sensible person would otherwise approve of.
The hoops of outposts, sta tions, guard ships, patrols, and bureaucratic drumbeating they'd had to jump through had left Stiles with a headache that was still here days and days later.
Muskets crackling incessantly, the drumbeats thumping, the case shots banging overhead, and beneath all that violence was the sound of men crying in distress.
My feeble but regular drumbeats may well have been welcome to the ecstatically displaced persons who were sitting or lying about the room.