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When It's Sleepy Time Down South (Louis Armstrong; Decca). An excellent performance by Sandpaper Vocalist Armstrong with some fine Armstrong trumpeting thrown in for good measure...
...corridors of Tin Pan Alley's Pentagon-the Brill Building, on Broadway-oldtime songwriters are taking it big. A novice at the trade has written a catchy song called Snowflakes, Guy Lombardo has recorded it for Decca, and song sheets and records are selling in a flurry. The successful tunesmith: a nine-year-old girl from Brooklyn, a fourth-grader who doesn't even know Billboard from Variety...
Fats Waller Favorites (James P. Johnson; Decca, 2 sides LP). Among Waller's favorites: Ain't Misbehamn', I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter, I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling, Honeysuckle Rose-all played with light fingers and breezy ideas by the man who taught Waller himself...
Kings and Queens of Boogie-Woogle (Decca, 2 sides LP). Digging deep for a classic collection of boogie, Decca offers Pianists Albert Ammons, Pete Johnson, Meade "Lux" Lewis, Dot Rice, Cleo Brown, Honey Hill. Outstanding: Lewis' Yancey Special, Johnson's Kaycee on My Mind...
...voice is as kernelly as Kansas corn, and his style as clear as a summer day. But in 21 years of making children's records, he has amassed a Bingle-sized following among the hobbyhorse set, which also means Bingle-sized record sales. Some of his 950 Decca records, such as the original, out-of-print Babar* series (1936), have even become collector's items...