Word: auld
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Midnight, December thirty-first, will bring more to American music than countless renditions of Auld Lang Syne. From that moment forward radio listeners will be fed a new musical diet, the result of an unsettled grudge-fight between composers and broadcasters. The major networks promise to forget every one of the half-million tunes whose copyrights are held by the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. That organization promises it can survive without the royalties it asks of the radio chains. The efforts of radio's Broadcast Music Incorporated, along with the thousands of musical pieces whose rights...
...thing about the record is the rhythm section, which is second only to the Count's. As a matter of fact, Basic plays piano here, and shares honors with Artic Bernstein (bass), Charley Christians (electric guitar) and Harry Jaeger (drums). Wholly Cats features the surprise of the year: Georgie Auld off tenor sax. Georgie used to be to the sax what Buddy Rich is to drums. Now he's playing swell horn, modelling his style on 'Coleman Hawkins', and you couldn't ask for a better master.... Dillagene, Woody Herman's new vocalist, does a nice job on Five...
...sporty Edinburgh lawyer: their first child, a daughter; on the Carnegie estate, Skibo Castle, Scotland. Once reminisced an old Skibo servant: "I'll not forget the way he [Carnegie] looked up at the castle with that queer smile o' his. 'Steel built yon hame,' the auld mon said, 'but it's love that'll keep it together when I'm called away...