Word: honkytonk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...removal of copyright restrictions ("Throw out the petition!" wrote one newsman. "Every last cliché, comma and full stop of it!"), Purist Alderley was more determined than ever to protect W. S. Gilbert from the depredations of popular arrangers. One, last week, even wanted to give lolanthe a "honkytonk beat" and retitle it Zaza Has a Piazza...
Free as a Breeze. City Slicker Gay, whose 200-man rural stable brings him more than $1,000,000 a year, found Jimmy five years ago doing a rube comedy act with a fright wig, blacked-out teeth and rouged-in freckles at a rowdy Washington honkytonk, hired him at $64 a week to sing and play his piano, accordion and guitar for U.S. troops in the Caribbean. On his return Jimmy joined several of Gay's corn-fed broadcasting groups and made a howling hillbilly recording called Bumming Around ("I'm free as a breeze...
...lover, Lloyd Bridges, she said: "I see in you the governor of a great state." These thematic straws did not interfere with the brutal clash of character, and the clash is what made the TV play exciting. Against the seedy raffishness of a steamy Staten Island house and garish honkytonk. the actors caught all the color and dimension of the human beings Odets so acutely observed. As they talked, the idea gleamed that here was where TV Writer Paddy (Marty) Chayefsky first met many of the people he writes about...
...sentiments expressed in hillbilly music are far from subtle, but they are forthright ("I've been workin' hard the whole week long/But I'm gonna have some wine, women and song"), candid ("If she's a honkytonk angel, I'm the devil that made her that way"), sincere ("I mean a lot to my Mom and Pop/I just hope I mean somethin...
Commodore issued a characteristic Sutton set (2 sides LP) ranging from the gentle syncopation of four seldom-heard Beiderbecke piano transcriptions to the solid honkytonk bounce of Three Little Words. Columbia followed up a Sutton record issued in its Piano Moods series last fall with Sutton playing eight Fats Waller tunes (2 sides LP) as they had not been played since the late great Negro pianist bubbled through them himself...