Word: bluebird
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blues in the Night (Jimmy Lunceford orchestra; 2 sides, Decca; and Dinah Shore, Bluebird). A song from the Warner Brothers movie of the same name which may start a trend back to the blues. Decca is betting that it is the most terrific item of its kind since St. Louis Blues. Three Decca discs of Blues in the Night have already sold 400,000 copies...
Phonograph records for children last week began their seasonal boom. Victor, most kiddie-conscious of disc makers, released its Christmas list: six sides from Walt Disney's Dumbo, and eleven Bluebird (Victor's cheaper label) albums. Seven of the eleven albums are the work of Helen Myers, who is the Rodgers & Hart of pint-sized music. Miss Myers, onetime Oklahoma City Junior Leaguer, Phi Beta Kappa, concert and jive pianist (a year at Manhattan's Rainbow Room), composer of moderately successful popular songs, has been with Victor for two years, dreaming up ideas for the children...
...Made the Pants Too Long (Vaughn Monroe; Bluebird). Belly-laughable satire on torch songs in general, on Lord, You Made the Night Too Long in particular...
...From many a U.S. jukebox, in strict dance time, in moody thumps, Freddie Martin's Bluebird record, Piano Concerto in B Flat, had moved in among the ten best nickel pullers...
...Spanier had left the Bob Crosby band before issuing the first good record the boys made with Muggsy taking a chorus. It's called "The Mark Hop," and though the powerhouse arrangement is sometimes a little over the heads of the players, Spanier blows a solo which matches his Bluebird records of a year...