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...station's schedule, released yesterday, features Dixieland, swing, and modern jazz from today until 12 midnight on January 10. Other programs will be devoted to Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque music through Bach; Haydn, Mozart and pre-Beethoven; Beethoven; the Romantics; the Moderns from R. Strauss; Gilbert and Sullivan and opera...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Network 'Orgies' Begin Today; Will Air Music 24 Hours a Day | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

...Dixieland tunes played by a U.S. Army band piped the 1st Battalion of Britain's Gloucestershire Regiment ashore at Pusan, Nov. 7, 1950. Last week a U.S. band at the same dock played a solemn "God Save the King" as the 1st Gloucestershires boarded the homeward-bound troopship Empire Fowey. Of the original 600 men & officers who landed at Pusan last year only 120 were left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ALLIES: Bound for Blighty | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

...they were wads of gum. The second unusual number comes when she is supposedly stricken with amnesia and reverts to her old profession of vaudeville acting. At this point the picture takes a turn for the better; she sings "It's a Hot Night in Alaska," a Dixieland piece and the show's best scene. The action between scenes then speeds up with the introduction of "Hemingway," a slap-happy sailor who speaks only in wisecracks of nautical slang. That's about it: the picture ends in a standard ballroom scene where the men wear black masks and clutch flaming...

Author: By William Burden, | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

...assistant groundskeeper at Comiskey Park, home of the Chicago White Sox. In his last years, he scraped along mostly on tiny record royalties, a few concerts and club dates. He did not mind fame passing him by. All he wanted, he told "Mama"-his wife Estella-was a Dixieland band to play at his funeral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jam for Jimmy | 10/1/1951 | See Source »

...rest of Mama's plans were complete: Jimmy would be driven off to the cemetery with the Dixieland quartet leading the way. On the way and at the grave, the boys would play High Society, Muskrat Ramble, Jazz Me Blues, and anything else they thought Jimmy might like. But they would finish up with Nearer, My God, to Thee, in hymn tempo. That was Mama's idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jam for Jimmy | 10/1/1951 | See Source »

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