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...Frenchy (Fats Waller; Bluebird). More resuscitation of Middle Period popular music, with Pianist Waller's own peculiar, headlong interpretation...
Where the bluebird sings...
...lick--that meaning the phrase used to warn customers that the particular set of tunes is over and to warn the band to come back on the stand. Hawkins took the thing, patterned it after some of the old Lunceford originals and recorded it for Bluebird...
Records take a sharp upturn this week, and are much more interesting than they have been in a long while. Leading the list is Earl Hines' "Rosetta," a piano solo cut a few weeks ago on Bluebird with "Glad Rag Doll" on the other side, a solo that he made for Victor in 1929. As far as I am concerned, this disc settles once and for all who plays the most piano. Up until about two years ago, I' still thought that the "Father" was the top of them all, but after that he didn't do any recording...
...Hear a Dream (Joe Sudy; Bluebird). Best recording of the best tune in Gulliver's Travels...