Word: jitterbug
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tried to teach British girls to jitterbug, k Made up tales about U.S. movie stars: "We don't like to spoil their dreams...
...picture is a swing version of the Little Annie Rooney that curly-locked Mary Pickford played to the last tear drop 17 years ago. Shirley is a modern jitterbug from the other side of the tracks. Her talents so stun a rich Manhattan youngster (Dickie Moore) that he invites her to his socialite birthday party. Clad in a glistening, gold-spangled evening dress, Cinderella Temple jitterbugs her way into the Social Register hearts of her boyfriend's parents...
They are Copenhagen and Jazz Me Blues, Milenberg Joys and Sugar Foot Stomp; a pleasant new tune (Falling Star) which shines brightly in the mellow orbit of Songstress Connie Boswell; spirituals from the Hall Johnson Negro Choir; a jitterbug jam session by instrumentalists Benny Goodman, Harry James, Gene Krupa and others...
...many who needed to be educated gradually to an appreciation of the vital spark of the great jazz improvisers. It appealed, therefore, almost exclusively to confirmed addicts, and for them it performed a great service with its thoughtful criticisms and biographies of well-known jazzmen. To the ex-jitterbug who has tired of jive, however, its almost esoteric articles and dogmatic policy seemed too great a change from his usual musical fare. But in what it tried to do, Jazz Information succeeded, perhaps, too well for its own survival...
...Eastern cities and towns last week, jitterbugs by the thousand laid their dollars on the line to hear a new dance band. The band belonged to dark, dapper, moody Clarinetist Artie Shaw, who two years ago pronounced his jitterbug followers morons, declared that the music business stinks, and, consigning the whole shebang to hell, left his band, got out of his contracts, went off to Mexico...