Word: banjo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cousin Emmy and Her Kin Folks. There is square-dance music, a female duo singing something like Back in the Saddle Again, a comedy rube act, a "Western instrumental trio," and Cousin Emmy, who best describes the rest of the show: "First I hits it up on my banjo, and I wow 'em. Then I do a number with the guit-tar and play the French harp and sing, all at the same time. Then somebody hollers 'Let's see her yodel,' and I obliges...
...also plays at least 15 musical and questionable instruments, to wit: banjo, fiddle, guitar, French harp, tenor guitar, ukulele, trumpet, accordion, piano, twelve-string guitars, Jew's-harp, dulcimer, five-string banjo, hand saw, rubber gloves, "and a tune I makes by just slopping against my cheeks with my hands." Tobalcker & Opry. How she acquired these abilities is something of a mystery, even to Cousin Emmy. She was born, next youngest of eight children, 12 miles from the nearest railroad at Lamb, Ky.-the family lived in a two-room log cabin which "had cracks between the walls...
...sides were made--"Sugar" and "China Boy"--and the record was released under the name of McKenzie and Condon's Chicagoans. William the Red McKenzie acted as contractor and Albert Condon played his 4-cable banjo as only Edward Condon can play it. This was easy for him, as Albert is Edward and Edward is Albert, except to his friends, who know him as Eddie...
Knee-high, banjo-eyed, potato-nosed Barney Google and his wonder nag, Spark Plug, were to U.S. kids in the '20s what Superman is today. Barney Google ("and his goo-goo-googly eyes") was a 1923 song hit that sold more than a million copies. Three Barney Google musicomedies toured the U.S. for two years; a toy manufacturer sold $1,000,000 worth of Google and Spark Plug toys and dolls; many a Google catchphrase entered the slanguage ("Horsefeathers!" "Heebie-jeebies"; "Jeepers Creepers!" "Youse Is A Viper"; "Bus' Mah Britches!" "Time's a'wastin...
...collectors of Solo-Art and Signature records and to explorers of New York jazz spots. With these new releases, Hodes' piano is fortunately within reach of everyone's ear, and definitely worth the listening time of two records. With a rhythm section of Zutty Singleton, drums, Eddie Condon, banjo, and Earl Murphy, bass, the band achieves a colossal beat, especially on "Indiana." On "Georgia Cake Walk" they outdo the Yerba Buena band in the latter's own territory...