Word: brunswicks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Giggin'. Son of a New Brunswick, N.J. hardware-store proprietor, Jimmie got started at the piano when he moved to Manhattan and met a ragtimer named Charlie Cherry. Jimmie later sweated over fundamentals with an old-fashioned scales and exercises man. In 1912 easy money ended Jimmie's school days-he started playing in cafes. For the dancing pleasure of the "Geechies," Negroes from around Charleston, S.C. and Savannah, Ga., he worked up his noted Carolina Shout. Near Manhattan's 37th St., in the "Old Tenderloin," he studied under Ablaba, a honkytonk pianist with a "left hand...
...Charles George Douglas Roberts, 83, eminent Canadian poet, knighted in 1935 for literary achievements; of a heart ailment; one month after his marriage to 33-year-old radio operator Joan Montgomery; in Toronto. In his youth he toughened his body on the woodland trails of his native New Brunswick, whose forests and streams he exalted in poetry. A World War I veteran, he left behind 67 volumes of verse, fiction, biography, history, including such prose works as The Kindred of the Wild, The Feet of the Furtive, Wisdom of the Wilderness...
...like the old Teddy Wilson-Billie Holiday Brunswick records--without Teddy and Billie. Best of all, for me, was the consistently fine trumpet of Frankie Newton, who later played at a slightly phenomenal cocktail party thrown in Lowell C-33 by Kenny Berol--duets with Johnny Fields (string base) and an empty punch bowl with the resultant roomful of loaded guests. It was almost like a Yale party...
...Uncle Robert." Raised on a plantation in Virginia's south-side Brunswick County, Lucile Turner first learned about Negro music from "Uncle Robert," a colored houseman who took her as a child to Negro prayer meetings. Later, after a fashionable private-school education, she studied music at Boston's New England Conservatory. For years she so thoroughly steeped herself in Negro music that she could create it as naturally as the Negroes themselves...
...Time Goes By was sung in a Broadway show called Everybody's Welcome, recorded by Rudy Vallee (Victor) and Jacques Renard (Brunswick). Forty thousand discs were sold and then the tune dropped from U.S. memory. Composer Hupfeld, who in his time had turned out such Tin Pan Alley hits as Sing Something Simple and When Yuba Plays the Rumba on the Tuba, came to the conclusion that he was through. For ten years he seemed to be right...