Word: fox-trot
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...Goldberg scat their way through the novelty vocal, and Bradley takes a swell trombone ride with a tom-tom backing... Johnny Hodges steals the show on Duke Ellington's Warm Valley (VICTOR), a slow, dreamy tune, arrangement of which is remarkably unpretentious. Reverse, The Flaming Sword, says "fox-trot" on the label, but just try dancing to it, and the elaborate rhythmic patterns will have you giving out on the old one-two-three-kick... Lionel Hampton's latest offering features an unusual combination: rhythm section with two guitars, Spanish (Douglas Daniels) and electric (Teddy Bunn). Coupling is Pigfoot Sonata...
...MELANCHOLY BABY (Benny Good man; Victor). Classic fox-trot played in the now classic Goodman manner...
...Master list were those of Raymond Scott. This conscientious and well-schooled pianist-composer, heretofore unrecorded, began appearing on Columbia Broadcasting System's Saturday Night Swing sessions last January. Not swing musicians at all, since they are not free to improvise, the Scott Quintet does play in fox-trot tempo. What makes their music remarkable is that they play Scott's unconventional compositions, and play them with a finesse, variation and volume expected only of a 20-piece band. At present sold out is the one Scott record so far released to dealers, Twilight in Turkey and Minuet...
...before his enraptured public as a man among men. He wears a sailor suit with as much flare as he ever brought to a top hat & tails. He sings in his reedy voice three new Irving Berlin songs and he dances four times: 1) an eccentric fox-trot with knee-flips in a dancehall, where he and Ginger Rogers win the contest; 2) a parody deck drill on a battleship with a sailor chorus; 3) another foxtrot, with Miss Rogers in a crosstime routine; 4) a final ballroom number with her. For those who are tired of the hoofing...
Theme-song of Strike Me Pink is as exhilarating a fox-trot as the team of Brown & Henderson has turned out for some years...