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...four, Melvin Howard Tormé was a complete nobody. Then he stood up one night in Chicago's old Blackhawk Restaurant and, having spilled his milk, sang You're Driving Me Crazy. It turned out to be one of the few unqualified successes of an unhappy life. When he was 14, he wrote an excellent song called Lament to Love and sold it to Harry James, but James took so long to play it that by the time it became a hit, all Mel's friends had already decided he was a liar. At 21, he made...
After the press conference, Truman took Kennedy on a tour of the library, played him The Blackhawk Waltz on the piano...
...trumpeter named Chet Baker and an underweight baritone saxophonist named Gerry Mulligan made themselves fast killings among the cats. By 1952, the West Coast was the U.S.'s newest, biggest stomping ground for jazz. Brubeck felt right at home, shuttled between such clubs as San Francisco's Blackhawk and Los Angeles' The Haig...
...Make Hit Records." The old circuit of "prestige houses," which included such famed spots as New Jersey's Meadowbrook and Chicago's Blackhawk, now scrambles for top soloists more than top bands. With rare exceptions, the theaters that used to pay Goodman and Shaw $10,000 a week are gone. Recording companies nowadays play for the hit song, the one-shot success; the disk jockey, who can make or break a record, rules the roost...
Chicago's nationally known Blackhawk Restaurant, mecca of name bands and a generation of college boys, was closed down for two days last week by a city Board of Health order. Reason: the Blackhawk was selling horse meat camouflaged as hamburger...