Word: goodman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...STRAIN and WOLVERINE BLUES (Louisiana Rhythm Kings and Benny Goodman's Boys; Hot Record Society, 308 Fifth Ave., Manhattan). These rare and exciting discs, recorded in 1929, are repressed by the Society to illustrate "the rise of the Boogie Woogie and the emergence of the Chicago Style." Boogie woogie is characterized by heavy offbeat bass and repetitive melody...
...zazz-u-zazz, generation Betty's presence "has been like having grandma occupying one end of the sofa all evening. A wide-eyed, sportily clad lass with a dink perched on loosely brushed locks, Sally steps around in gillies and low socks, will jitter like any Benny Goodman votary in the twelve cartoons planned for her this season...
...drummer named Gene Bertram Krupa, not long out of a Catholic college, heard Drummer Ben Pollack's band play in a Chicago hotspot. What struck him most about Ben Pollack's outfit was the playing of Pollack's clarinetist, a sober, scholarly-looking chap named Benny Goodman. Twelve years later Drummer Krupa joined Clarinetist Goodman's own orchestra and rode to fame with that rising organization...
With the passing of time Drummer Krupa's frenzied battering and occasional syncopated solos became principal features of every Goodman performance. Jiggling jitterbugs hung on every drumbeat; some partisans found Krupa the sugar in the Goodman coffee. Last winter, following Goodman's triumphal appearances in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall (TIME. Jan. 24) and elsewhere. Drummer Krupa decided that he was too important a figure to thump modestly along as Goodman's sidekick, decided to form his own band. Experts, pained of late by his exhibitionism, shook their heads dubiously; but last week on Atlantic City...
...Paul Connihan '39, Sam Fahr '40, Tudor Gardiner '39, Nick Mellen '39, Charles Snyder '39, Arthur Staniski '39, Tom Lacey '41, Don Lowry '41, Ted Hoague '41, Roger Lindsay '41, Chester McLaughlin '41, William Carlebach '41, Bill Underwood '41, Walter Riddle '40, Frank Donovan '39, Bill Brown '41, Howard Goodman...