Word: bandsman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bandsman Bill (Rock Around the Clock) Haley, whose Comets were among the groups shut out by the Jersey City ban, put a defense of sorts on records, in pounding choruses of a ditty called Teen-Ager's Mother. Sample lyrics: "Teenager's mother, are you right?/ Did you forget so soon/ How much you liked to do the Charleston...
...Each bandsman will wear a large shamrock over the breast pocket of his red uniform jacket, and a large green sign proclaiming "Erin Go Bragh" will be stretched across the row of tubas...
Dale finally made it into the big time, singing with name bands on network shows, but she was never happy. In 1947 she married Widower Roy Rogers, an ex-bandsman himself, who had three children by his first wife...
Even larger than the six-foot six inch drum (eight feet high on its special carriage) is the band's gigantic sousaphone, one of the largest in existence. No one is sure just when it was purchased, but it seems clear that some enterprising bandsman picked it up for a mere $100 when it was unintentionally put on an inventory sale. Its mate, made by an English locomotive factory for John Phillip Sousa, is now in a New York music store, definitely not for sale at any price...
...blew its way around a swing-crazy countryside from 1936 until it was broken up by the draft. In 1944 he organized the Herman Herd, the band whose piledriver precision so bemused Composer Igor Stravinsky that he wrote his Ebony Concerto for it. The outfit made Herman the top bandsman in the land. He disbanded it because it left him too little time for wife and daughter-"I just hadda go home, that's all"-but his daemon kept driving him, and a year later he had another standout herd. It was a disastrous venture because it was dedicated...