Word: hepcats
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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...into radio. Said she: "You talk all the time anyway; you might as well get paid for it. Station WDGY, in Minneapolis, took him on as announcer, jazz-record-player, occasional vocalist. He built up a sizable following of jitterbugs for his record program, White Heat, enrolled many a hepcat in his White Heat Club of America. When he moved across the river to St. Paul's station KSTP, Minneapolitans remembered him chiefly for the double talk he ad-libbed between records. It sounded something like: "Come on, you pulsating, cheerilating, titillating, palsadictasomnadictadypsomaniacs of thermal rhythm, and listen...
...Radar Rockettes made their debut, the Cruft Laboratory has not been the same. There was a time when one could enter the austere building and walk through quiet, dignified halls. Now all is changed. An undercurrent of swing is plainly discernible and one has the jivy feeling that a hepcat session is somewhere in progress though hidden from the electronic eyes of student and faculty...