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...such things usually do, it began on Manhattan's 52nd Street. A bandleader named John ("Dizzy") Gillespie, "looking for a way to emphasize the more beautiful notes in swing," explained: "When you hum it, you just naturally say 'bebop, be-de-bop.' " What be-bop amounts to: hot jazz overheated, with overdone lyrics full of bawdiness, references to narcotics, and doubletalk...
...including Nuts to California ("You talk about your grapefruit, so full, so round, so big; they're the kind in Texas, that we feed to the pig."). Dave stopped only to take sandwiches and coffee. At 7:45 p.m.-15 minutes before the deadline-Dave finished his 52nd song. He called it It's Never Too Late to Forgive...
Earl Carroll, showman who went to jail in 1927 for perjury after denying that a naked girl had taken a bath in birthday-party champagne, celebrated his 52nd birthday at his Beverly Hills diggings. A thousand guests watched spotlights play on his swimming pool and on his "most beautiful girls in the world," waded into 40 cases of liquor (only five of champagne...
...difference between satire and burlesque, to his characters who, though they are "great ones for clichés, which they usually get just a little wrong," are never caricatures. O'Hara's virtue, says Gibbs, is that he is thoroughly at home an the varied worlds between 52nd Street and Hollywood Boulevard, in one of which "every lady is a tramp and every man an enemy," and in another, "it is possible to be bored to death or to break your heart in the most exclusive surroundings." Readers may agree with him, and yet conclude that Author...
Uptown local to 52nd Street, where Billy Holiday and Red Norvo are featured at the Downbeat, the Onyx has Lips Page and Stuff Smith, and the Eddie Heyward band alternates with Slam Stewart and Johnny Guarnieni at the Three Deuces, and of course Art Hodes with Mezzrow and Danny "Sister Kate" Alvin at Jimmy Ryan's ... Art says the Jazz Record is new in the black and continues to be the best magazine in the field ... We agree ... Ran into George Lugg and Vic Dickerson who is still with Eddie Heyward...