Word: accordionists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smiling Joe Mooney, 35, it was a sweet triumph. He had played piano in a dozen forgotten bands, arranged music for Fats Waller, Jane Froman, Jack Teagarden, Paul Whiteman. In 1935, he bet someone that an accordion could be made to swing, learned to play the thing and became accordionist in Whiteman's band. Then in 1943 an auto accident put him in a cast for 18 months, left him with a permanent limp. Last March he rounded up Clarinetist Andy Fitzgerald, Guitarist Jack Hotop and Bass Player Gate Frega, sold them on his basic idea: "Erase the labels...
Comrades of the Cucumber. The best and the worst of the famous Russian soul seems to come out on trains. The camaraderie is overwhelming; the crudity unbelievable. At every stop someone got off to fill my canteen with vodka, which was then redistributed to all hands. We collected an accordionist, a Hero of the Soviet Union, a discharged sailor and enough other people to make movement in our compartment almost impossible...
Cruising was written by stout, spinsterish Eily Beadel (who calls herself "officially 48"), a retired music-hall accordionist, and her chum, greying, triple-chinned Nellie ("Tolly") Tollerton, a onetime actress of the silent films. Eily lives with her twelve-year-old cat, "Spot," in Hammersmith, and Tolly Tollerton lives with her husband, who is a Swedish foot juggler...
...brightness, the procession rolled slowly into the driveway in front of Georgia Hall. Eleanor Roosevelt looked out at the tense faces of the cripples. The procession stopped and she saw Graham Jackson, a Negro accordionist who had performed for the President many times. He stepped up beside the hearse and began to play. It was "Going Home," one of the President's favorites...
Jack Benny, on U.S.O. tour in New Guinea with Cinemarmful Carole Landis, Harmonica Virtuoso Larry Adler, Songstress Martha Tilton and Accordionist June Bruner, gave out with a few of his well-publicized violin notes for the benefit of a native and the photographers...