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Today marks the sixteenth anniversary of the first recording session on which a full set of drums was used. It happened in Chicago at the old Okeh studios, and the percussionist who broke away from the hard and fast rule of showing up with only a snare drum, cymbal, woodblock, and cowbell was Eugene Krupa, fresh out of school and still on Camels...
...King James: "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal...
Somewhere in Valhalla an unseen hand struck a mighty cymbal note, and the sound of doom was heard across Germany...
Rinker sang and played the piano. Crosby sang with him and whacked a small cymbal. Their style could be described as modified vo-do-de-o-do. It was original enough to get them a job with Paul Whiteman, but seemed to burden many audiences. The Manhattan reception of their Red Hot Henry Brown prompted them to rename the song Lukewarm Henry Brown. It was not until Paul Whiteman put Harry Barris into the act that the Rhythm Boys really got to town...
...writer of considerable savor (I Surrender, Dear; It Must Be True; Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams). He was also such a cocky little entertainer that the partners nicknamed him "Mr. Show Business." He worked up a fast routine with himself and Rinker at baby pianos, Crosby at his baby cymbal, rapid patter, breaks, and percussive slamming of the piano top by Barris himself. He wrote Mississippi Mud. The Rhythm Boys' record of it, with Crosby's doleful passage about the melting away of his sugar who was left standing in the rain, sold over 300,000 within three...