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...Look (Joan Merrill; Bluebird). The torch record that is putting nickels into the nation's juke boxes. As a result, choke-making Songstress Merrill is looking toward Hollywood...
...opening up with some elaborate piano, one of his best recent recorded solos; and a vocal backed by guitar fillins which give the chorus a pleasantly simple contrapuntal quality. Everybody comes in for the finish, and it's stuff like this which makes sissies out of the white bands (BLUEBIRD)... Billie Holiday and Benny Carter get together on two old numbers: Loveless Love and St. Louis Blues, and the date is something of a comeback for Billie. She's awfully erratic, but when she's. "right," Billie can put life into Hearts and Flowers, The band offers interesting solos, including...
...Swamp Lands. Reverse is called Everything Depends on You, ideal dance number featuring Madeline Green on vocal, backed by "the boys." The lyrics are swell, the background harmony very tasteful, and finally, there's a long gooey tenor chorus which seems to fit in with the mood (BLUEBIRD...
...Reverse is Bill Coleman Blues, with Coleman on the trumpet backed by guitarist Django Reinhardt. Trumpet is muted all the way through, and the music is at once restrained in attack yet powerful in beat(despite the one-man rhythm section). . . Glenn Miller's Song of the Volga Boatmen (BLUEBIRD) is probably going to be a terrific hit in juke-box circles. I'm so happy...
Tenors Willie Langford and Henry Owen, Baritone Willie Johnson and Basso Orlandus Wilson began singing together in Norfolk, Va.'s Booker T. Washington High School, got on local radio programs even before they graduated in 1935. They had already been on records (Bluebird) and the radio before they were discovered, barnstorming the South, by crew-cropped Jazz Pundit John Hammond. He presented them to Manhattan more than a year ago, and Café Society shortly signed them. Tenor Clyde Riddick took Willie Langford's place in the quartet...