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Died. Frank Henry Willard, 64, Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate cartoonist, creator of derby-hatted urchin Kayo, somnolent Lord Plushbottom and other cronies of banjo-eyed Moon Mullins in the long-running (since 1924) comic strip; of a stroke; in Los Angeles...
...Seeger's considerable artistry. He has a poor voice and poorer diction, but neither failing seems to bother him, and if it bothers his listeners they can go elsewhere. He has in his favor a completely ingratiating manner--which natuarally comes across better in person--and tremendous skill with banjo and guitar. This ability is heard to best advantage on dance tunes like Old Dan Tucker and The Blue Tailed...
Shake a Fugue. Farmingdale's Band Director Marshall Brown, 36, is the writer of more than 200 pop songs (Seven Lonely Days, Banjo's Back in Town), a former trombone and bass player and the holder of a graduate degree in music from Columbia. Hired to teach instrumental music in Farmingdale, he persuaded the high school five years ago to let him weed out the best players from the concert band and train them as a jazz group. "I felt," he says, "that the standard band repertory was too limited and that we were neglecting the most important...
...occasionally among the carefully slurred ham-hock vowels are hilarious. The songs are chain-gang, camp-meeting U.S. imports: Wabash Cannonball, Frankie and Johnny, I Shall Not Be Moved. The musicians generally are amateurs, paid with coffee and Cokes, belting out their rockabilly on a couple of guitars, a banjo and a bass fiddle (sometimes store-bought, more often conjured out of an empty tea chest, a broomstick and a knotted string...
...problem. As one of them stated (with some symptoms of frustration): "Situated in the business district and open to the distractions of an apartment hotel, we run a dismal gauntlet-slamming doors, dripping faucets, a view of an alley, rattling trucks and an s.o.b. who dotes on playing the banjo. Once my attention was taken from a patient by the sight of a whisky bottle swinging on a string outside my office window." They wanted a new building custom-tailored to their needs...