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Lady in the Dark Album (Decca). Sibilant Hildegarde sings the Gertrude Lawrence part of the Hart-Gershwin-Weill musical. In the main, German Composer Kurt Weill has a baboo approach to U. S. musical idiom, e.g., Saga of Jenny, My Ship, This Is New. Good enough for anyone's piano is One Life To Live...
Amapola (Jimmy Dorsey; Decca). Every company has disced a steal of this Latin classic, of which Dorsey's seems most earful...
NEWS AND NEW RELEASES. Joe Sullivan will be in Providence Sunday. He's one of the great pianists that brought jazz out of Chicago in the twenties. A composer as well, Joe has created such tunes as Little Rock Gateway and Gin Mill Blues. . . . DECCA has issued an album of "white Jazz," consisting chiefly of small band jobs done several years ago, and featuring pretty nearly every white musician worth listening to. Among the offerings are Panama by Jimmy McPartland, Jazz Me Blues by the Bob Crosby Bob Cats, Swingin' on the Famous Door by the Delta Four...
...include the Harry James Trio (Albert Ammons, Harry James, Johnny Williams, Eddie Dougherty); Pete Johnson and Joe Turner on Roll 'Em Pete; and the two-sided Boogie-Woogie Prayer, featuring Johnson, Ammons, and Meade Lux Lewis. These records are vastly superior to the ones put out in the older Decca Album . . . Cootie Williams plays trumpet and sings on Benny Goodman's COLUMBIA recording of Let the Door Knob Hitoha. Cootie's vocal is fine, but just try and figure out the lyrics. Reverse is Perfidia, and the arrangement of this tune makes it excellent for dancing. I don't know...
Born. To Jessica Lucy ("Decca") Freeman-Mitford Romilly, 23, sister of Hitler Friend Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford, and fifth of Lord Redesdale's six beauteous daughters; and Esmond Marcus David Romilly, 22, nephew of Winston Churchill's wife, onetime warrior for Loyalist Spain, now training with the Royal Canadian Air Force; a daughter, their first child; in Washington...