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...Things You Are (Tommy Dorsey; Victor). Musicians' music-i. e., most others will have to hear it three times to like the melody-from Jerome Kern's Very Warm...
...Shaw claims that he is leaving the business, despite the fact that his income would have been some six-figured amount. Yet only a few months ago, he signed recording and booking contracts that were to run for two years. When his drummer, Buddy Rich, left to join Tommy Dorsey several weeks ago, Shaw, according to several of the men in his band, offered Rich a large increase in salary, and when Rich refused to stay, told him he could return whenever he wanted to. As far as ascertainable, his recording company, booking agency, and other business associates...
...also does pretty well with Tommy Reynold's an Artic Shaw imitator. . . Sonny Burke, a Duke University product who does just as well as his predecessor, Les Brown, is playing at the Atlantic Ballroom in Revere. Good dance music and quite acceptable swing. . . And don't forget that Jimmy Dorsey is playing the MIT Sophomore Prom tonight at the Copley Plaza. If you are a fast talker, you might be able to wangle your way into this...
Swing situation around Beantown gets a real dose of aspirin as three topnotch bands pull into town today. Jimmy Dorsey, Les Brown, and Sonny Burke attract in the order named, the last two being here for several weeks, Jimmy doing a series of one-nighters starting tonight at Roseland State and ending up next Friday at the MIT Sophomore Prom...
Thus we have Tommy Dorsey who never made a colored swing style record, who lately has been doing either very feeble Dixieland or even more feeble sweet music trying to do one of the famous Lunceford arrangements...