Word: basses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After painstaking rehearsals, Mr. Bechet went to the Victor studios with his tenor and soprano saxophones, string bass, drums, clarinet. The piano was already there. He recorded each instrument's part separately, listening to and recording the preceding part as he played the next one (see cut, p. 40), The six parts were progressively dubbed together. "Man!" cried Mr. Bechet, when the job was done. "That ends three months of torture...
After a Saturday-night singer decides which part he wants to sing-First Tenor, Second Tenor, First Bass, Second Bass-he plays a 75? disc. On one side his part in Sweet Adeline, Let Me Call You Sweetheart and In the Evening by the Moonlight is sung solo; on the other the songs are let loose by a professional quartet, in which the amateur joins...
...Listen-n-Sing" records were devised by Duncan D. Sutphen Jr., Manhattan adman and onetime Princeton glee clubber. The songs are sung by an NBC quartet, whose members felt self-conscious singing separately; the second bass quacked and cracked through five tries before he got it right. If the first records sell, sea chanties and tougher barbershop tunes like Sylvia will be recorded...
...Annapolis). A connection has often been suggested between his luster and the fact that his sister had just married Capitaine de Vaisseau Keraudren, then Aide-de-Camp to the President of the Republic. At school Darlan's wild arm-waving while he talked earned him the nickname "The Bass Drummer," upon which he often capitalized by standing on a chair to exhibit the idiosyncrasy. At the Ecole Navale he successfully cultivated the sons of admirals and other personages...
Star of the performance was bulky, brawny, muscular Sumnerster Q. Raptlster, whose resonant bass floated over the air waves in a simply priceless imitation of Lord Haw Haw, famed Nazi comedian. Bancroft G. Bancroft was also funny...