Word: guitars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have a son, Carey, who is now at a swank British prep school. "I want the boy to have the education I missed." says Rex. "Fortunately I didn't need one in the theater." Noel, his son by his first wife, was an Olympic skier, now plays the guitar as an entertainer in European nightclubs. In London. Harrison moves confidently at any level of society; his sister married David Maxwell Fyfe, who was Home Secretary, and is now Viscount Kilmuir, the present Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, and a member of the Tories' top command. Five years...
Rock 'n' roll is based on Negro blues, but in a self-conscious style which underlines the primitive qualities of the blues with malice, aforethought. Characteristics: an unrelenting, socking syncopation that sounds like a bull whip; a choleric saxophone honking mating-call sounds; an electric guitar turned up so loud that its sound shatters and splits; a vocal group that shudders and exercises violently to the beat while roughly chanting either a near-nonsense phrase or a moronic lyric in hillbilly idiom...
Dashed from Church to Adams Common Room and caught last half of House's chamber music concert. The novelty on the program was Wenzel Matiegka's charming if uninspired trio for flute, viola and guitar, with 'cello part added by Schubert; ensemble a bit ragged, but guitarist Richard Zaffron contributed delightfully quaint twanging and strumming. Flutist Karl Kraber ended concert by deftly tossing off virtuoso solo part in Telemann's sturdy A-Minor suite for flute, strings and continuo...
...Norvo with Strings (Fantasy). The first man to make the xylophone talk jazz (in the early '30s). Oldtimer Norvo has lost neither his light touch nor the warm sentiments of his younger days. Playing the vibes, he joins with guitar and bass for some stimulating reflections on such tunes as Cabin in the Sky, That Old Black Magic...
Heavy Beat. The perpetrator of all this hoopla was born in Tupelo, Miss, (pop. 11,527). His parents gave him a guitar before he was twelve. "I beat on it for a year or two," he drawls. "Never did learn much about it." He learned to sing church hymns with a heavy beat, as Negro revival singers do, but gave no thought to a musical career. A couple of years ago, Presley, working as a truck driver, was seized with the urge to hear his own voice, took his guitar with him and made a recording in a public studio...