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...Honey Jump (Sauter-Finegan Orchestra; Victor). A riffing tune performed by a relatively new band with plenty of polish. The vocal on the other side is Time to Dream, sung by Baritone Joe Mooney, who likes to squeeze his words out one by one. The suspense is unjustified...
...musicians just sit there and play the notes he writes. The most recent and one of the most original of the arrangers' bands, launched last week by Victor: the combination of Ed Sauter, 37, who wrote such items as Benny Rides Again and Superman for Goodman, and Bill Finegan, 35, who was on the staff of the Glenn Miller band for its whole four-year life...
...first four Sauter-Finegan recordings have an enlarged percussion section (xylophone, bells, kettledrums, etc.). But each side has a definite mood of its own: Rain sizzles like a summer shower on a slate roof; Azure-Te hits a melancholy note with a low, liquid flute sound (played on a recorder); Stop! Sit Down! Relax...
Among the lettermen that will be missing this year are Captain and guard Bud Finegan and forward Ed Buckley who are both in the Marines. Ed Rothschild is in the Law School now and Joe Romano, whose where-abouts are unknown, has a brother in the Class of '46 who is on the Freshman-Jayvee squad. Bumy Hadley, Bill Snyder, Art Scully, and Jock Torgan, although all still in school, have not yet reported for practice for various reasons, while Billy Webber is in the Navy, and Chick Lutz is in the Army...
Rothschild as chairman heads the six man committee in charge of the dance, other Senior Class members are J. Christopher Finegan, while Thomas Matters leads the Junior ushers...