Word: flanagan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FLANAGAN...
...Want Is the Red We've Got in the Old Red, White and Blue. Dashed off in ten minutes last May by Bickley (Stop Beating 'Round the Mulberry Bush) Reichner and British Songwriter Jimmy Kennedy,* it had been around almost all summer before Band Leader Ralph Flanagan persuaded RCA Victor to let him record a mile-a-minute dance version. Last week, after being on the market only a fortnight, it had already sold 200,000 copies, promised to be one of the year's big hits. RCA Victor had rushed out a deluxe version by Hugo...
...similarity was no coincidence. Flanagan's first big break came when he arranged an album for Rainbow Records called A Tribute to Glenn Miller, who was reported missing in a flight over the English Channel during the war. Then he got a chance to try a few more in the old "danceable" mood. Recording with a house band of studio musicians, he turned out four sides for Victor's revived Bluebird (49?) label which sold so fast that some dealers hiked the price to 79?. Flanagan's next recording sold just as well. Before he knew...
Fortnight ago, when he finally made his first public appearance at a one-night stand in Wrentham, Mass., the Flanagan flair seemed to be just as effective at close range. Last week, when Flanagan & orchestra opened at New Jersey's famed Meadowbrook, the roadhouse had its biggest crowd in four years...
...Flanagan had not flared into fashion without causing some embarrassment here & there. Victor Recording Star Tex Beneke (TIME, June 2, 1947 et seq.), who had inherited the Glenn Miller mantle in the first place, was hastily trying it on again...