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...Saturday morning session at eleven-fifteen on WEEI. George isn't quite as at case as he is in print five days a week, but something interesting always happens. Last week Ben Pollack divulged in an interview that Benny Goodman used to play cornet occasionally in the most exciting Bix Beiderbecke vein. Of late, the program has included at times a record-spotting quiz, at which this column will be represented tomorrow, along with Count Basic, Al Morgan, and perhaps Lionel Hampton...
Roommates Captain Mike Keene and Frank Bixler combine with Dean Hennessy, another resident of Matthews North Entry, to pace the Yardling attack. Bix is high man for the squad so far with 171 tallies from his left forward post, with center Keene nosing out Hennessy for second place, 144 to 141. Hennessy, the right forward, has compiled an phenomenal average from the foul line to account for 39 points in 49 tries...
...Souvenir Program (Paul Whiteman Orchestra; Victor Album). Ten sides (four previously unissued), with solos by the late great Trumpeter "Bix" Beiderbecke and vocals by Bing Crosby, made in 1928 when the Whiteman band was at its peak...
...make things even rosier, Paramount has dragged out one of the original Bix Bicderbeeke outfit, jack Teagarden, to furnish the orchestral trimmings; and Teagarden doesn't miss, whether he's playing swing, sweet, or a combination of both...
...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 (And if you didn't see Bing and Louie Armstrong in "Pennies From Heaven" you missed a treat). Today, of course, he's the only male ballad singer...