Word: dixielanders
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...Thrill of Showing Off. The tastes of the audience, which ballots by mail for the winners (average weekly mail: 9,000 cards), are shifting. Going out of popularity are one-man bands, soft-shoe dancers, Dixieland, harmonicas and stringed instruments; coming in strong are folk singers, guitars, guitars and guitars. The Hour still has its share of artists who play rhythms with fire extinguishers, punching bags, bones, bicycle pumps, balloons, spoons, glasses and bottles-naturally, Geritol bottles...
There was lots to be found in the wholesome bag, too, notably Julie Andrews and the tinkly, tweeting movie track of the Sound of Music, the year's big bestseller. The newest sound was produced by Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass, a trumpeting mixture of mariachi and Dixieland. Jazz continued to flail around in various directions, not knowing how seriously to take itself. Perhaps the year's best jazz record was Miles Davis' E S.P., combining a thoughtful questing with virtuosity...
...ball around for half a minute. But with ten seconds to go, forward John Scott was called for travelling as he attempted a routine pass to Gene Dressler. As the Huskies called time out, Cabot gym reverberated with yells, the shrieks of cheerleaders, and the blaring of a Dixieland pep band...
Cooper and Conrad took these tribulations in good humor. They listened to Dixieland jazz beamed from Houston-Al Hirt trumpeting Muskrat Ramble, Birth of the Blues, Jada. Houston felt light enough to joke about speculation that Gemini 5 would fall short of its attempt to stay up eight days and have to come down before Sunday. Said Paul Haney, Gemini public affairs chief: "There has been consideration given here to playing Never on Sunday, but it was ruled out as inappropriate." Soon after, Houston cockily played the song...
Died. Ernest Loring ("Red") Nichols, 60, cornet-playing jazzman and master of Dixieland, whose Five Pennies was one of the most popular white combos of the late 1920s, at times including such future stars as Benny Goodman, Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller and Gene Krupa, but was eclipsed in the 1930s by the big dance bands of Red's former pupils until 1944, when he managed a small comeback with Five new Pennies on the nightclub circuit; of a heart attack; in Las Vegas...