Word: duchin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every hour on the hour he leaves his beer, turns out the stage lights, and addresses the piano. Hr begins every tune with a style just this side of Eddie Duchin, but infinitely more subtle; this pleasant music may last for as many as 32 bars before the cocktail pianist gives way to the ragtime revivalist. Sutton plays almost no ragtime "classics"--his entire repertoire consists of such out-of-context numbers like "Just One of Those Things," "The Way You Look Tonight," and "Body and Soul...
...plays the expected ones too, but only on request or by whim. "Peg O' My Heart" got a scornful but amazingly inventive treatment the night I last heard Sutton, while a private joke with clarinetist peanuts Hucko produced a "Sugar Blues" that laughed at Duchin and Peewee Hunt but wound up with three choruses that were all Sutton, joke or no joke...
Married. Edward Frank ("Eddy") Duchin, 38, pianist-bandleader; and Maria Teresa ("Chiquita") Paske-Smith Winn, 34, daughter of a onetime British Minister to Colombia; both for the second time; at the Manhattan home of Commerce Secretary W. Averell Harriman, who gave the bride away...
Kraft Music Hall (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., NBC). A better-than-average variety show, starring Edward Everett Horton, Eddy Duchin, and the King Cole Trio...
...Jazz by Sammy ("Swing and Sway") Kaye, Eddy Duchin, Hildegarde, Bing Crosby and the Quintet of the Hot Club of France...