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...Bandstand (Mon.-Fri. 10:30a.m., NBC). A new musical program...
...Bandstand (Mon.-Fri. 10 a.m., NBC), A new, two-hour live musical show...
Some 30,000 Gold Coasters were waiting restlessly when he arrived. He made his apologies-"Man, I've been scoffing plenty with the P.M."-and started to play. Some fans dodged up to the bandstand and started to dance. One ran afoul of the cops, who roughed him up, leaving Louis depressed. "Man, that's why I left New Orleans. I don't like rough stuff...
...King of Swing is playing for dancing once again, and he is bucking a trend he himself started 20 years ago when Benny and his free-swinging sidemen had youngsters clustering around the bandstand to squeal and applaud their riffs and licks. Swing was the thing, and in 1938 Benny Goodman set an altitude record for jazzmen with his concert at Carnegie Hall...
...week, and jazz fans went to look him over at Café Society. The glad word from that echoing Greenwich Village cellar was: the Duke is riding high again. He displays a growing habit of holding earnest conversations with onlookers while playing the piano, and of even leaving the bandstand and meandering back just in time to give the final cutoff. But his band is practically reborn...