Word: banjo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Commandos!" From the rear, snatches of song floated forward: Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah, Someone's in the kitchen I know-oh-oh, Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah, Strummin' on the old banjo...
...just what happened to him. NBC cut Eddie Cantor off the air, in the middle of his act. In Manhattan he and Singer Nora Martin were telecasting an old tune, We're Having a Baby, My Baby and Me, which Cantor sang in the 1941-42 Broadway musical, Banjo Eyes. NBC found some of the lyrics and some of the comedian's bodily illustrations of them, "objectionable...
Burly, banana-fingered Charles John Grimm first started cutting capers for Chicago fans in 1925. In seven years as the Cubs' first baseman, he endeared himself to the crowd by mixing mimicry and banjo playing with expert ball. In six years managing, he was even more impressive: two pennants, two seconds, two thirds. He was fired in 1938 as the Cubs slipped, but the Cubs kept slipping to their present all-time low. One of Grimm's chief hopes is the Cubs' $60,000 clouting outfielder Lou Novikoff, who missed spring training. Novikoff did not get along...
Eddie Cantor, who has been rolling his banjo eyes (see p. 54) at wounded servicemen on the "Purple Heart Circuit" for three months, was awarded a Purple Heart scroll at a testimonial dinner marking his 35th anniversary in show business...
...boys in the band, for this Sunday, will be Charlie Vinal (clarinet), Johnny Windhurst (cornet), George Lugg (trombone,) Ev Schwarz (piano), Johnny Fields (bass), Inky Ingersoll (banjo), and Jack Hart (drums). Johnny Windhurst, it will be recalled, came up from New York with Jim Moynahan '23, for a session last month. Since, then, he's moved to South Weymouth (living with Charlie Vinal). George Lugg is the veteran tailgate trombonist of Chicago jazz fame who appeared twice last summer at the Harvard Jazz Club's sessions with Art Hodes' band. He's making the trip up from New York...