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...Eberly, singing with Jimmy Dorsey, in suffering from Laryngitia. Does he call in a doctor? No-he writes Bing Croshy, who in supposed to have a cure-ail honey and orange juice confection... Good stuff by Lionel Hampdon, slapping at those who claim all musicians are dope hounds... Also by Coleman Hawkins for taking his band out of a New York spot rather than play music he considered unsuited to his band...
...okeh. We prefer Lee Wiley's records (General Records)... "Baby Won't You Come Home" is better rendered by the O'Neil Spencer Quartet than by Ella Fitzgerald; both Deccan... Fats Waller is still very funny, "Square From Delaware" being a good example... Even better though is the living Bing Crosby and Jobnny Morcer do on "Mr. Meadowlark" two swell showmen... "Bye Bye Blues" by Seger Ellis ain't nothing much other way... "Tired Socks". by Johnny Hodges sounds as if the Ellington combo were a little weary when it made this...
...Hampshire, to pay the expenses of Deputy WPA Administrator Howard 0. Hunter to Kentucky Derbies, to provide free tea parties and banquets for Government officials and local politicians. At Del Mar, Calif., $521,047 of WPA funds was used to build a race track which was later sold to Bing Crosby, in a deal in which WPA was admittedly "taken for a ride." The report also said that Communists had worked their way into New York projects...
...prices stiff and proud. In the early 19305 radio competition cut U. S. disc sales to 10,000,000 a year. While total U. S. sales rose to some 60,000,000 last year, Victor began hearing crescendos of competition. Decca Records, which invaded the popular field with Bing Crosby and a 35? disc, also repressed, at 50? to $1, a great many foreign recordings. Columbia, most of whose twelve-inch symphonic discs remained at $1.50, began improving its product mechanically, lately signed up such topnotchers as the Minneapolis Symphony under Dimitri Mitropoulos, the Chicago Symphony under Frederick Stock...
...sire: "He had twelve other sons besides me. I was always the youngest and puniest. Gosh, he was a fine old feller! Never raised a hand to none of us boys-'cept in self-defense." If I Had My Way (Universal) will thrill countless admirers of Singer Bing Crosby by making him the foster father of Songstress Gloria Jean, Universal's 12-year-old laryngeal replacement for rapidly maturing Deanna Durbin. Crosby & Gloria Jean sing Burke & Monaco's l Haven't Time to Be a Millionaire, Meet the Sun Halfway and Pessimistic Character. Alone, Bing Crosby...