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Blue Rose (Columbia). An inspired teaming of Songstress Rosemary Clooney and Bandman Duke Ellington. The Duke's crew is in a lush mood, and Rosie sings her swingingest-despite the fact that she sang the lyrics on the West Coast and he played in Manhattan. Taped at her best, in such famed Ellington originals as Mood Indigo and I Got It Bad, she actually sounds like that late princess of vocalists, Ivie Anderson...
Japan was spared the mambo until last fall, when touring Bandman Xavier Cugat introduced it. But it did not really catch on until the Japanese saw Jane Russell do the Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White mambo in the film Underwater! In the last two months more than half a million mambo records have been sold, and Japanese recording companies have been working overtime to meet the mamboom. Top hit is still Cherry Pink, followed closely by Skokiaan Mambo and Cerezo Rosa (a different arrangement of Cherry Pink). Local mambo composers are doing their best to catch...
Home from an eleven-week concert tour of Europe, Bandman Duke (Mood Indigo) Ellington reported that he was 16 Ibs. lighter. The secret: "I gave up coffee, tea, and water in Germany-drank nothing but that wonderful German beer. This stuff gets inside you and you feel it's doing something good down there...
...frenetic mob, mostly teenagers, that overflowed Los Angeles' 2,670-seat Philharmonic Auditorium to hear him, Bandman Kenton nervously explained what he was up to; he wanted listeners to write their confidential reactions to his "innovations in modern music for 1950" on the cards that had been handed out. But, he warned, "If you start looking for melody, you won't find any . . . We get a"great thing out of concocting sound." He went on rapidly to add: "It's sound concoction." With that he whirled around to let them have...
Others thought it was good, too. The dance had spread to the U.S. In Manhattan, Tony & Sally de Marco introduced a fancy-dress version at the Plaza Hotel and on the stage of Broadway's Capitol Theater. Bandman Emil Coleman was playing it nightly along with foxtrots, rumbas and sambas for the Waldorf-Astoria patrons...