Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last one of the bunch, strangely enough not written by Mr. Feather and without either Louie, Ellington, or Norvo, is by far the best. As a matter of fact it is one of the best hot records of recent years. Don Byas, temporarily forsaking the riffy, howling style he has been courting lately, and Johnny Hodges, from whom one might well have expected at least one good performance, take up most of the twelve inches with slow lyrical and tender soloings on an undistinguished, though at least idiomatic, popular tune of several years back called "Gone With the Wind." Hodges...
...years from now, thanks to physical and chemical science, men would know of what the atom is constituted. ... To all this we raised no objection, but we have the feeling that when this time comes in science, God with His white beard will come down to earth, swinging a bunch of keys, and will say to humanity, the way they say at 5 o'clock at the Salon, 'Closing time, gentlemen...
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer wanted something operatic for Two Sisters from Boston (TIME, June 17). MGM's musicmakers scrambled through the classics. The trouble was, none of the old boys knew how to start an opera right. They had a rousing overture, the curtain rose, and a bunch of minor characters went into some tedious, scene-setting song. What Hollywood wanted was an overture, curtain, and zowie-a tenor aria for Lauritz Melchior...
...camp any more: Billy had lost $1,800 to his brother in less than a week. Now they played quick two-handed poker games, anteing $20 bills, and raising with $205. Occasionally Billy commanded Manager Johnny Ray: "Gimme another hundred." Said Manager Ray: "We're just a bunch of plain, ordinary bums having a good time...
...most of his time at the piano or with his miniature railroad (1,000 feet of track). His deadline composing and arranging amaze his friends. Most weeks, he begins preparing his broadcast only a day in advance. Modern composers do not amaze David Rose. He regards them as "a bunch of arrangers suffering from over-excitement...