Word: frazier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miller's return engagement wherein he carped so crisply at "Remember Pearl Harbor" and those other football songs. Perhaps next week there'll be room for it. . . . Count Basie's. "Harvard Blues" has sold over a hundred copies at Briggs and Briggs. That means twenty-five cents for George Frazier. Basie's publicity department ran an ad in Variety calling it "the year's most publicized record"; I imagine they must read this column. . . . The explosive trumpet of Bunny Berigan was to be heard last night over the air from the Totem Pole, and it was the Bunny of five...
...lending Rex Steward his trumpet for a feverish ten minutes, Frankie, who always takes the last solo on each number, improvised chorus after chorus with the full, rich tone he induces from his open horn. And Rex himself clambered halfway onto the bandstand to hear him better. As George Frazier of the Herald would say, it was "jazz all over the place...
...suppose Harvard was the only college in the country about which a blues could have been written and exploited with a good chance of titillating the public fancy. Anyway, it's now been done. The perpetrator is George Frazier '33, record reviewer for "Mademoiselle," who has just begun a daily column in the Boston Herald, and finds time also to proclaim his disapprobation of popular idols in the swing world once a month in "Downbeat" and "Music and Rhythm." With all this, and an occasional short story, not to forget a casual stab at the great American novel, his creative...
...might be expected, the Frazier verses, given a sympathetic reading by Jimmy Rushing, with Count Basie's band offering staunch instrumental support, were not written to glorify the academic stature, or even the gridiron triumphs, of his alma mater. They discuss rather the Harvard Hollywood and the rest of the country know and don't love. "Oh, I wear Brooks clothes and white shoes all the time" and "Oh, I don't keep dogs or women in my room" are a couple of choice excerpts from the Frazier rhymes, and there are others...
Last week Tropical opened with unprecedented fanfare. The Whitneys, the Wideners, the Woodwards and even Mrs. Shipwreck Kelly (Brenda Frazier) rubbed elbows with the turf's tinhorn sports. Reason: Florida's "friendly track" was recently purchased by a group of polo-playing, hunt-club socialites headed by Baltimorean Henry L. Straus. M.F.H., and the millionaire Munns (Gurnee and Charles Alexander) of Washington, Palm Beach and Paris...