Word: goodman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chair, sit down and clap her hands while cooing benevolently upon the audience. Aside from the fact that the look on Bud's face was funny as hell, a very serious question was brought up. Just what is the average leader going to do about the jitterbug? Benny Goodman recently wrote a long article proving that the jitterbugs caused his band to play as loudly as it does because they screamed so loudly the band couldn't be heard. Mebbe so--and again mebbe not. But at any rate, the screaming, exhibitionistic type of swing fan who climbs all over...
Records: Benny Goodman keeps up his tradition of copying only the best in swing with "I'll Always Be in Love With You," a reissue of the old Fletcher Henderson arrangement. But since Benny didn't put his name on it as author, Fletcher Henderson used to be his arranger, and it con be ruled an excellent copy of an excellent arrangement... Bluebird turns out a very fine release this week with the famous "Honky Tonk Train Blues" by Lux Lewis, another boogie record by Pinetop Smith, and "Rosetta" with an all-star band. Fine jazz plus excellent recording make...
...allure of a "name" band; a week end of frolic with the one girl, enticed from afar by the promise of Jimmy Dorsey or Benny Goodman; the opportunity for a party of such proportions that even "Life" might come--this is the picture often painted of a single, monumental class prom. Now that the House Committees are considering abandonment of the costly but not quite sensational $800 band--abandonment of the attempt partially to satiate the jitterbug enthusiasm of Harvard name-band devotees--and acceptance of the smaller, restricted House dances, the prom has again become an issue...
...personal contract and spared no pains to see that his investment was protected. In regard to his copying, examine "Fon To You" and you will find "Don't Be That Way" and "If Dreams Come True" in full splendor; "Dodging The Dean is made up of "Blue Skies" (Benny Goodman's arrangement) and "How Am I To Know"; "Study in Green" bears strange resemblances to one of Glenn Miller's riff tunes; "Midnight in Madhouse" has a large chunk of Ambrose's "Night Ride" present; "Chant of the Jungle" is an almost exact carbon of the old Casa Loma arrangement...
Then to finish off the program, Dan Fleckinger '41, Dave Bennison 1L, and Bill Whitcraft '39 played two Goodman trio numbers with Fleckinger turning in a passable facsimile of Ted Lewis, and then the Crimsonians smoothly swung Goodman's "One O'clock Jump" with Casa Loma's "White Heat" as an encore...