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...members who have never worked together. Naturally, woodshedding is considered a complex form of quartet work, since it calls for correct harmony and a working repertory of dozens of songs. This is no place for a crow (a nonsinging member who might sometimes toss in an ad-lib dum-dee-dee-dee), but calls for S.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A. men who can drop (the bass singer drops down one octave at the close of the song), scoop (hitting a note on the flat side and sliding up to proper pitch) and swipe (singing a progression of two or more chords on a single...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Chordiality in Washington | 6/21/1954 | See Source »

...equipped with expansion chambers to absorb the shock wave, they were almost noiseless, and each was equipped to fire three kinds of bullets: small lead pellets for merely stunning victims, nickeled-steel bullets that proved capable of penetrating 2¼ in. of pine board at 24 ft., and dum-dum slugs smeared with a mixture of potassium cyanide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Whistler | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

...Dum Du Dum Dum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 12, 1954 | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

...March 15 cover of TIME shows four bullets with "Dum Du Dum Dum" written over them to represent the classic Dragnet theme. If these were drawn, as I suspect, to represent dumdum bullets, I credit the artist, Boris Chaliapin, with the finest pun TIME has made in quite a while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 12, 1954 | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

...musical background to Jack Webb's picture on TIME'S cover ... is decidedly clever but proves once more that few artists know how to read notes. Assuming that the notation of the "dum du dum dum" theme is in the bass clef (which is not indicated), the tones would be in major key instead of the intended minor, unless a flat sign were placed in front of the note B. It would have been quite easy to get along without any such "accidental" by simply putting the theme into the key of A minor instead of G minor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 5, 1954 | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

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