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...Miami, with 30-odd bands tootling to beat the cars (but kept from radio listeners lest they hear, illegally, an ASCAP tune-see p. 57), Mississippi State beat Georgetown, 14-10-7, in the Orange Bowl...
...ASCAP, whose members include every big name in U. S. music and whose contract calling for a percentage of the networks' take caused the breach, set up monitors in 31 U. S. cities. First to get the crackdown was the Fred Allen show. Twice, claimed ASCAP, the program had allegedly tootled the strains of the late ASCAPper George Gershwin's Winter-green For President. Legal talent prepared to sue CBS and its stations which carried the program, Texaco, the ad agency...
With sufficient money in his war chest to carry on the battle for over a year, ASCAP's Broadway-wise president, old Songwriter Gene Buck, was feeling pretty pleased with himself. Lucky Strike's Hit Parade he called the "bit parade." Meanwhile B. M. I. President Neville Miller, hero-mayor of the 1937 Louisville flood, boasted that many a station had been complimented on "the freshness and adequacy of B. M. I. music." Some listeners reacted otherwise. Ten thousand musicians, composers, educators signed petitions asking FCC to knock both B. M. I.'s and ASCAP...
...ASCAP and BMI thrust themselves directly into local affairs Friday night when their feud forced the Harvard band to revise its schedule and resort to Stephen Foster instead of Harvardiana...
...know where Meade Lux Lewis got his style, listen to his old-time teacher Jimmy Yancey, on Yancey's Bugle Call and 35th and Dearborn (VICTOR). Jimmy plays in a nice easy-going style, with bass figures somewhat more elaborate than those of Meade Lux . . . Since I wrote about ASCAP-BMI I learned from a very unreliable source that the whole thing has been settled. It seems that ASCAP gave in and has made some sort of settlement offer. The story is supposed to break Monday, but as usual, Miller gets there first. (I hope...