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...generation of jazz lovers misses out almost entirely. Peggy Lees may come and Ramonas may go, but Mildred Bailey remains the best female singer since Bessic Smith. The strange part of the public's ignoring of Mildred is that she resembles in many respects the greatest living male singer, Bing Crosby...
Besides having grown up together, Bing and Mildred worked for Paul Whiteman when Whiteman's band included the greatest living white jazz men. Mildred may have stuck closer to the righteous music and Bing may have headed for greener commercial pastures, but their essential tastes and styles are the same...
...Both Bing and Mildred demand and get the best out of the musicians with whom they work. They know what is right and if it's worth achieving, will work their heads off to achieve it. You'd never know the effort spent, however, by merely listening to their records. Their secret is relaxation. Neither betrays the slightest tension. From start to finish their records are a lesson to the Harry James school of swing and strain. For intimacy and warmth, no one can beat them. Put on a record of Mildred's, sit down, and listen. There...
Smacking thoroughly of Irving Berlin from its thirteen songs to its superficial plot, "Holiday Inn" is the sure-fire musical it has to be. Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby supply able song-and-dance accompaniment,a t the same time filling the order for time-worn romantic conflict. Round one goes to Astaire when the tranquil night club trio of Crosby, Astaire, and Virginia Dale splits up, Crosby retiring to a farm, while his hoofer pal wins the gal and goes on hoofing...
...Yank, one of the first U.S. war songs to be written about tanks, was tried out last week (amid appreciative whoops) on the same tank corps that heard Stokowski's Shostakovich (see col. 3). An official première of The Cranky Old Yank is scheduled by Bing Crosby this week on his Kraft Cheese broadcast...