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Just for curiosity, what was the source of the quote on Bing Crosby with my name on it in the April 7 issue...
Road to Zanzibar (Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Una Merkel; TIME, April...
Perhaps a column on jazz music isn't quite the the proper place to talk about Bing Crosby, since he can scarcely be called a jazz musician. Then again, Bing has been identified with this kind of music for a long time, and its influence on his singing has been so marked, that I believe he wouldn't be the same without it. After all, he and the Rhythm Boys were making records with Bix Beiderbecke back in the Twenties, and since then some of his best work has been done in the company of swing artists...
...that he happens to like. It's as if he chanced to be walking by the studio when some-one poked his head out of the door and said, "Hey, you. Carmen Lombardo just saw a mouse and fainted. Do us a favor and take his vocal chorus." So Bing said, "Sure." It was as if he made the record because he happened to be the only one around. He just sang the tune, in other words, the way you would while washing your feet in the bathtub...
...show him to be a master of the ad lib, a good example of which is Small Fry, not exactly hot music, but with that quality of informal spontaneity which you hear in Louie Armstrong and others. Best of all is his famous Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams, where Bing discovered that he was singing the wrong part of the tune at the wrong time. Without any hesitation he went on: "They cut out eight bars, the dirty--And I didn't know which eight bars they were gong to cut. Why don't somebody tell me these things around...