Word: basses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week Finnish men and women worked day & night. Brawny peasant women toiled side by side with boys and old men, burrowing trenches, throwing up breastworks, putting together makeshift pillboxes. Beneath the high-pitched scream of shells in air and the sharp thunder of their explosions sounded the dull bass background music of the battle south of the city. Day by day it came nearer...
...Tyrannosaurus, king of all prehistoric beasts, yip, yowl or yodel? Was he a tenor, or a bass?", wrote Hal Roach Studios to Alfred S. Romer, professor of Zoology and expert in paleontology...
...called Cord Corp. and its head, hardboiled, dynamic Errett Lobban Cord, was fast becoming the least regimented syndicateer in the flying game. But in 1937 Motorman Cord sold out his Cord Corp. holdings. About a quarter of them went to his broad-shouldered, boom-voiced No. 1 man, Lucius Bass Manning, already a large stockholder. The rest went to a syndicate headed by British Bankers J. Henry Schroder & Co., and to young, up-&-coming Public Utilitarian Victor Emanuel's investment house, Emanuel & Co. (in which he is now only a "limited partner...
...printed here lists of what record sales and the opinion of musicians show to be really good records. Some of these are: "Just a Mood" by the Teddy Wilson Quartet (Brunswick), a blues recording done with the aid of Red Norve (xylo-phone), Harry James (trumpet), and Johnny Simmons (bass). This is blues as it should be--quiet, relaxed, and with long, luscious ideas. Harry James plays phenomenally, although I suspect that most of his solo is swiped from several old Louis Armstrong records...
...Parade" okeh, but not as good as had hoped it would be . . . Count Basie's "I Left My Baby" a swell side of blues with Jimmy Rushing doing better singing than he has done for quite some time. Lester Young on sax gives him good backing . . . This new bass player that Duke Ellington found is really sensational. Listen to "Plucked Again" wherein he plays a duet with the Duke. It's quite something...