Word: barney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ellington Special (Columbia, 8 sides). Previously unissued Ellingtonia from the 1932-38 period, when the Duke had Barney Bigard on clarinet, Cootie Williams on trumpet and a better band than he has now. Recording: fair...
...popular songs, he cunningly concluded, fell into well-defined categories: 1) love songs, 2) nonsense songs, 3) jingles, 4) songs built around a silly syllable. Of these syllables, Billy discovered, the double-o sound-"oo"-was the most successful. On this principle, he carefully constructed some sound effects called Barney Google ("with the goo goo googly eyes"). Just as his calculations had indicated, it was a smash hit. Having shortened his name to Rose, Billy lengthened his list of popular song hits and that year made more than...
Hoboken didn't like McFeely. He was tough, glum, nickel-pinching, semi-illiterate and vindictive. When he left the seat of a dump cart for politics, he cultivated Democratic Boss Paddy Griffin so obsequiously that he was nicknamed "Me Too Barney." But when Paddy got sick in 1925, McFeely had what he needed to grab Paddy's power: he controlled the police and fire departments and thus almost all Democratic campaign funds...
...Creole Jazz Band; Columbia, 8 sides). Strictly for New Orleans fans, this album includes barrelhouse (Bucket Got a Hole in It), stomp, blues and a shouting version of Joshua Fit de Battle of Jericho. Trombonist Ory sings two numbers in Creole French. The ensemble includes Barney Bigard on the clarinet. Performance: good...
...aviation industry had bid heavily for the war-taught savvy of top-ranking officers: A.T.C.'s Lieut. General Harold L. George now heads Peruvian International Airways at Lima at about $50,000 a year; strategic bombing expert Lieut. General Barney McK. Giles is vice president in charge of engineering for Air Associates Inc.; former War Shipping Administrator Vice Admiral Emory S. Land is president of the Air Transport Association...