Word: dixieland
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...Clyde," says Bandleader Turk Murphy, "is the Lawrence Welk of Dixieland jazz. His music breathes happiness and chloroform...
...oldfashioned) ever to lift a trumpet. But moldy or not, Trumpeter McCoy has a sizable following, passionately devoted to the chirpy, foot-jiggling style the fans think they remember from the misty corridors of their youth. Last week, after a five-year layoff, "Clyde McCoy and His Waa Waa Dixieland Band" were winding up a successful stand at Manhattan's Roundtable before taking off on a Midwest tour, during which they expect to cash in on a burgeoning craze for facsimile Dixieland-brassy, frenetic and foursquare...
McCoy springs few surprises. A trim, energetic man at 56, he leads his seven-man band through Hot Lips, Basin Street Stomp, and other items of Dixieland "sugar stuff." The arrangements are as predictable as a TV script, and the sound is unexceptional. With his horn in his right hand and his left hand flashing an outsized diamond as he carves out the rhythms, McCoy demonstrates that he can still make a trumpet caterwaul, growl, wail, or punch out notes of brassy clarity...
After the shouting came a test of strength; by more than a two-thirds majority, a bid for delay by the Southern Democrats was beaten. Although the Dixieland band started talking in a polite filibuster, it was clear that, as in the civil rights showdown of 1957, Johnson had the votes to get another rights bill through the Senate...
...pretty much in heat throughout the whole film. Orson Welles stirs the ashes, and Lee Remick as Eula, the wife of Varner's lazy son Jody, (Anthony Franciosa) casts a warm glow over the theatre by performing some marvelous romping in and out of bed (with the phonograph playing dixieland full blast). One gets the feeling, consequently, that Jody, who is being pushed out of his father's favor by the stranger Ben Quick (Paul Newman), does not have it so rough...