Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When a fellow takes out his tooth these days, the prime requirement is that she be a jazz bomb. He, for his part, is expected to make sure the coals are right for picking up the tab. Sometimes, of course, the heap plays sour, but more often the music is really served-served like a cloud, in fact. And if the sinatra is a keg, every number is liable to get real oblique...
Neither in San Francisco beatnik saloons nor Manhattan dives could this inspired narrative have been heard last week, but it echoed through Munich jazz cellars. U.S.-style rock 'n' roll, with its clog-shoe tempo and its far-out jargon, is sweeping Germany and leaving the language in Teutonic tatters.* Along with the new lingo, a new generation of singers (or shouters) have appeared, all of them alarmingly young. Where U.S. rock 'n' rollers are well along in years (19-25), Germany's top practitioners are in their early teens, and at least one solid...
...Translation key: Tooth (Zahn) is a pretty girl. Jazz bomb (Jazz Bombe) is a good dancer. The coals are right (Die Kohlen stimmen) means there is enough money. Heap (Haufen) is a band. Served (bedient) stands for tops. Cloud (Wolke) means roughly a gasser. Sinatra is any singer, and keg (Fass) is a first-rater. Oblique (schräg) is real gone...
Walt Disney Presents (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). Disney casting an aseptic eye on the outbreak of the American Revolution, Johnny Tremain, Paul Revere and all that jazz...
...that is soap, and cigars that are cheese. There are Snake Candy and Jam Jars. There are Shimmy Inspector Badges. There are Exploding Cigar Boxes, Agitating Match Boxes, and Chameleon Dice. There is, in fact, a complete Kazoo Band--"You Can Play Them If You Can Talk!"--from Baby Jazz Kazoo Saxophones, to Cornet and Trumpet Kazoos, to Kazoo Slide Trombones. With the Kazoo Band there are instructions on How To Organize a Kazoo Band...