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...Little Thrigs (Al "Jazzbo" Collins; Capitol). The ultimate in pop-bent nursery stories. Narrator Collins scrambles the familiar words into loony spoonerisms, either causes total listener collapse or total disinterest...
...enterprising admen. Sam Arnold and John McCall, who handle the Colorado Air Guard account. Arnold and McCall were discouraged at the dismal results of the recruiting disks they were getting from the Pentagon, decided they needed a new. pitch. Then they heard a record by Jive Spieler Jazzbo Collins (TIME, Sept. 14). Suddenly they were real gone...
...least. In their first five days on the air, the canned commercials had rounded up 70 cats in the recruiting offices, all of them babbling bop and eager to slide into those cool blue threads. (Average turnout before the jive-talk campaign: four recruits a week.) In Manhattan. Jazzbo Collins was pleased but unsurprised. "Recruiting spots would lend themselves. 'The Army needs YOU!' just wouldn't go. Whereas if you said, 'Man, dig that crazy uniform. It's a gasser.' Well...
...intended only as a private joke for bopsters, told in the latest Tin Pan Alley argot, where "cool" means good, "crazy" means wonderful and anything that is really tops is simply called "the most." But the tale quickly reached a larger public when Manhattan Disk Jockey Al "Jazzbo" Collins read it over the air, then recorded it for Brunswick. The record has sold a reported 200,000 copies to become a solid popular...
...Brunswick side of his own, Funnyman Allen told how Goldilocks wandered into the three bears' house, found that "the largest bowl [of soup] was very hot, the next bowl was very cool and the littlest bowl was just right. Naturally she chose the cool bowl." Meanwhile Jazzbo had switched over to Capitol Records, picked up a new scriptwriter (Douglas Jones), and last week released his second pair of "Grimm Fairy Tales for Hip Kids": Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Jack and the Beanstalk. Jack, on first seeing the beanstalk: "Man, what crazy asparagus...