Word: discs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when Bob Crosby's band began playing a piece called the Yancey Special, no one knew who Yancey was. But the piece caught on, and the disc jockeys and record companies began hunting for Jimmy. They found him at the White Sox ballpark, cutting grass. He said he didn't even own a piano. Jimmy made a few records and had a brief burst of popularity, then had a stroke. His left hand stiffened up, and for a while he couldn't play...
...hand currently hopes to sell transcriptions on the open market. Capitol and Disc made overtures last fall, but James C. Petrillo, President of the American Federation of Musicians, successfully blocked plans by banning all non-union discs from sale in shops selling union made transcriptions...
...contracts with Capitol and Disc come through, unlimited possibilities for the spring term will be within reach. High enthusiasm among band members has made intense activities outside the football season plausible for the first time in band history, and these efforts may bring further coinage into the coffers...
Canada Lee, one of Broadway's top ranking Negro actors (Native Son, The Tempest), turned disc jockey for Manhattan's WNEW. But he wasn't saying why: "One doesn't admit that one would like to make money...
...Snapper Arthur ("Too Fat") Godfrey, CBS's earlybird disc jockey, spotted an unexplained washing machine in his studio one morning last week, casually gave it away to a woman in the studio audience. CBS's Winner Take All, which had been storing the washer in the studio, promptly cried thief. Grumped Godfrey: "That'll teach 'em to keep their junk off my show...