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...terrific undisciplined jazz Dinner For the Duchess and Wingy Mannene cuts two sides of terrific undisciplined jazzy Dinner For the Duchess and When I Get You Alone Tonight (BLUEBIRD). Wingly's seat choruses are featured on both sides, and Dixieland fans will get a kick out of the ensemble jam on the finishes. . . Cozy Cole and Chu Berry grace Cab Calloway's OREB recording A Chicken Ain't Nothing But a Bird. Tune was featured in the Southland floor show last year. . . lna Ray Button's new out offers two riff tunes: Five O'Clock Whistle and Make Me Know...

Author: By Charles Miler, | Title: SWIN | 11/9/1940 | See Source »

NEWS AND NEW RELEASES. The one and only Grover Sales (who found out you can get an education at Harvard without registering) tells the story of the infamous Boston Hot Club in the October issue of the Hot Record Society Rag. Jam sessions with Count Basie, raids by the Beantown police, George Frazier's night in jail are all featured in Grover's account of the club's decline and fall. . . . Eight-neat fans may add to their list Teddy Powell's DECCA recording of Teddy's Boogie-Woogie. It's fast jump, with a gang of good choruses. . . . Will...

Author: By Charles Miller, | Title: SWING | 10/26/1940 | See Source »

...premises a large variety for HARV's listeners, which will include broadcasts of Browne and Nichols football tussels, rebroadcasts of Germany's short-wave propagandist. Lord Haw-Haw, and of London news commentaries, and music from jam session to symphony...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON NETWORK YIELDS HEATING PIPES TO NEW 40-WATT STATION | 10/5/1940 | See Source »

Effort will be made to get nationally-known party members to address the group and then participate in discussions, he said, but no speakers have been definitely engaged as yet. Weinberger anticipates some difficulty in getting prominent, "big-name" speakers, as most politicos have jam-packed schedules from now on to November...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '44 WILL HAVE POLITICAL FORUM | 10/2/1940 | See Source »

...reasons for Italian confidence was apparent superiority in the air. With a pronounced margin in numbers, the Italians also had at least parity in plane quality, since the British use mostly planes like Gloster Gladiators in Egypt, where dust and sand jam modern retractable landing gear. A third possible reason for Italian optimism was numerical superiority-perhaps four-to-one-in troops. Another was the threat of a diversion against the British rear, from Italian East Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Liberation Out of Libya? | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

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