Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...really tough, let's insist that a record be judged, as a whole, by its final effect. This way we find that only three artists have maintained a consistently high standard along with a large output: Duke Ellington, Teddy Wilson, and Mildred Bailey. Ellington and Wilson are fairly well-known, even among the lowest jive-addict, but Bailey, unfortunately, is a different case. To the swing fan she is just another singer, out of touch with the present "standards" of sexy song-singing. He probably first heard her when she sang with Goodman, bought a record of their joint efforts...
...Walter Bailey's porch looked skeptical, but watched more closely. The column clanked off. Then the watchers saw a second wave of infantry worming up to the road. An armored car rolled by full of singing Negroes. This time the infantry fired before Bailey could signal. The car wheeled and bolted over the roadside through the infantry, but was flagged down by the umpire. The Negroes had been so surprised that they forgot to fire. The infantry claimed not only gunfire but two well-landed grenades. "Did you throw any real object to simulate a grenade?" the umpire asked...
...umpire had just adjudged it a capture when the tank column rolled up and captured the infantry, freeing the Negroes. While the tanks were halted, one of Bailey's hands moseyed up to a small opening in the nearest tank. "If I git in the Army, kin I git put in one like this?" he asked...
...make out," said Bailey...
...umpire told Bailey to put in his bill for the fence. "It's all right," the farmer said, "I'm satisfied...