Word: bandsmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Familiar red-coated figures on the fall gridiron, the bandsmen will provide music for the processional and ceremonies in Tercentenary Theater on June 5, and will take part in the parade to the Yale baseball game on June 4 as part of the Class Day festivities...
Kenton's bandsmen began making more noise than any except perhaps Herman's. Kenton arrangements included trumpet and saxophone battles, with each section standing up to play its inning. Kenton beat out grandiose piano phrases against an elaborately embroidered bass. He called it "artistry in rhythm...
While in the past, members of the organization have played informally at basketball games, this year will be the first to see bandsmen definitely keep the group out of hibernation and officially a part of the sporting seene at the University. Should circumstances, chiefly the financial headaches that plagued them throughout the grid season, permit, Skinner will take his men on the road to follow the basketball team along part of its circuit...
...show, Ted talks little. "The records do the work," he says, "and I just make the announcements quietly and charmingly." To help him he has one of the most carrying voices in radio. So far he has played mostly Crosby, Sinatra, Como, and top tunes arranged by top bandsmen. "This," he explains, "is because I intend to be a dignified disc-jockey." Dignity is paying off. Two new sponsors have signed up since the show started. That makes eleven. And fan mail has been almost as enthusiastic as the ditty Ted had tailor-made for the start and finish...
...jackets, yellow monogramed shirts and flowered ties. His band is almost as youthful (average age: 23) as his public. He organized his first orchestra-15 kids who called themselves the Band-busters-when he was twelve. They played high-school dances in Philadelphia. Five of Lawrence's current bandsmen are original Bandbusters, including the singer, brunette Rosalind Patton, who sang an uncertain treble for the orchestra when she was eleven, is now a limpid-voiced contralto...