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...often brushed off a new Duke record only to have it grow on me, and the same may happen to "New World a Comin," but I think that as a whole the piece is out of line as a jazz composition and not at all satisfactory from any other standard. In particular, I could not take the piano interludes and clarinet cadenza--which had nothing to do with jazz and appeared to have nothing to do with the rest of the composition...

Author: By S. SGT George avakian, | Title: JAZZ, ETC. | 12/14/1943 | See Source »

Even many of Tin Pan Alley's bestsellers, such tunes as You'll Never Know, Comin' in on a Wing and a Prayer, There's a Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere, were fragrant with hillbilly spirit. All over the country were the Appalachian accents of the geetar and the country fiddle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bull Market in Corn | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

Canny, suave Eli Oberstein asks no embarrassing questions. His recordings bear such names as Johnny Jones, Willie Kelly. Oberstein's Comin' in on a Wing and a Prayer and You'll Never Know, have rolled up sales of 200,000 discs. Irritated Boss Petrillo has been unable to find anything amiss. "It's very simple," remarks Eli Oberstein, "I pick up any tune I like, and the records just come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Petrillo Perplexed | 6/28/1943 | See Source »

Although we sorta felt like orphinks during yesterday's graduation exercises, our day is a'comin'. With lotsa weekend liberty we ought to be completely relaxed for Commencement Tuesday. If we are able to see the platform at all, we'll do our best to get up there. And, did you know that we'll then get orders detaching us from here to report to the Harvard Graduate School of Business, as ensigns...

Author: By M. J. Reth, | Title: MIDSHIPMEN | 5/28/1943 | See Source »

...quietly totting up his receipts. The guard told a story: "There was a bloody monkey hanging by his bloody tail in the jungle . .. and along came a bloody air-raid warden. One monkey says to the other monkey, 'Look out, Jock, here's this bloody bastard comin' along to civilize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Home to the Wars | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

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