Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...APPREHENSIVE DOG-H. C. Bailey-Crime Club ($2). Mr. Reginald Fortune luxuriates at a museum-piece English inn while probing the violent death of a long-absent village siren, whose return to childhood scenes precipitates murder, suicide and confusion among the gentry. Intelligent, well-characterized and done with customary Bailey finesse...
...from the frenzy of collective improvisation that goes on there nightly . . . Listen to Ruby Smith's Decca record of "Harlem Gin Blues" for a little uninhibited vocal ribaldry . . . Columbia expects to issue some records by Red Norvo's band, which was heard in Boston some weeks ago, with Mildred Bailey singing the refrains as of yore...
...DAVID W. BAILEY...
Negroes have fought ably in every U.S. war since the Revolution. In the Civil War, the Union had 170,000 black soldiers under arms. But when the first Negro leader, Frederick Bailey Douglass, asked why they were paid less than white soldiers, President Lincoln temporized. Negroes should be glad they could serve at all, said Mr. Lincoln. They had more to fight for than any white...
...more of the old atmospheric Gershwin songs, no more of those simple, melodic, tunes like "Sugar" and "More Than You Know." Songs like those are not being written today, or at least I hadn't heard them. Then I played Billic Holiday's record of "Sugar" and Mildred Bailey's of "More Than You Know" on the phonograph and realized it even more acutely. Perhaps the radio and talkies had done the job, perhaps the demand for music for films, stage shows, juke-boxes, and all the other media through which the backneyed din reaches the public ear, has been...