Word: harlem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reputable Negro leader distrusts The Man Bilbo, who was once accused of muzzling Negro pickers in his pecan grove. He tickles the poor-white vote with his back-to-Africa talk, but he appeals to many a poor black as well. Last week he flourished a letter from Harlem: ". . . I, Mack Royal . . . seartnley will go at the word-I and my whole famley. . . . Sir, please inrole my name; please do this with fail...
From the early days of the Fresh Air Taxicab Co. of America Incorpulated, through this winter's Harlem World's Fair, unfailing inventiveness has maintained radio's Amos (Freeman F. Gosden) 'n' Andy (Charles J. Correll) as the U. S.'s favorite blackface pair. For their April 3 broadcast, the day they moved over to CBS after eleven years with NBC, Amos 'n' Andy cooked up a superspecial episode. Andy, long a wary bachelor, let himself and an $800 bankroll be lured to a Harlem altar by a schemestress named Puddin...
About records: Mildred Bailey releases six sides of blues, backed by her Oxford Greys (an all star colored band) next week that should make record history . . . Charlie Barnet's "Echoes of Harlem" while not up to the Duke version of same, is quite good . . . The Woody Herman of "Woodchopper's Ball" is a very good side of blues with trombone by Neil Reed. No adjectives needed. . . For some remarkable changes, even for Ellington, get "Something To Live For" (Brunswick) and listen to the introduction. . . Hampton's "Wizzin' the Wizz" is supposed to be even better two fingered piano. I still...
Albert Ammons, the boogie-woogie swing pianist, and Roy Eldridge, New York's famous trumpeter, who flew up form Manhattan specially for the affair, gave the Yardling masses a taste of Harlem's "hot" music...
Hold Tight was originally conjured up in Harlem's "Congo" district where a black and elemental breed of cats drink cheap King Kong liquor, puff reefers and shout a frank and sexy jive talk all their own. Jewish Swingsters Larry Kent and Jerry Brandow joined with Negro Swingsters Willie Spotswood, Ed Robinson and Leonard Ware in publishing it last January through Exclusive Publications, Inc. under the group names Kent Brandow and Robinson Ware Spotswood. Soon it was being innocently squalled all over the land...