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...Square Bop. Least known of radio's troubadours is Dick Farney, 25, a dark-eyed Brazilian baritone whose greatest claim to fame is his invention of the phrase "square bop" (a bad accompanist with a surface sense of rhythm, who confuses crooners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Languor, Curls & Tonsils | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

...Take them re-bop* boys. They're great technicians. Mistakes-that's all re-bop is. Man, you've gotta be a technician to know when you make 'em. . . . New York and 52nd Street-that's what messed up jazz. Them cats play too much music -a whole lot of notes, weird notes. . . . That don't mean nothing. . . . You've got to carry a melody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Satchmo Comes Back | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...bop (according to Jazz Pedant Rudi Blesh): "Healthy jazz distorted into frantic rhythms, fantastic harmonic non sequiturs, a psychosomatic heterophony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Satchmo Comes Back | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

Velma Middleton, a two hundred pound red hot mama, and Leslie Scott, a romantic baritone, were not particularly remarkable. A better version of "Hey Ba Ba Re Bop" than Middleton's can be heard any night at the "Showtime...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jazz: | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

...walked up behind her, and kissed her once, and said something about 'How about marrying me, Babe?' Really, I don't remember. . . ."). Then there was Eyewitness Jorge Benavides. a Peruvian delegate to U.N. Said he: "In Peru, we do what you do here in America. We bop him on the nose, like you say. Is that correct? Please do not involve me in any fights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Joint Story | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

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