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...hearing, still plays very stiffly himself and his rhythm section sounds as if it were descended from the proud line of Pinocchio. On slow tunes, things were much better, the band displaying an indifferent Goodman style sweet. However, on the so-called "killer-diller" stuff, not even the rankest jitterbug could find much satisfaction with Mr. James playing such tricks as using the beginning of "Bach Goes To Town" and most of the famous Berigan chorus from the Benny Goodman record on "King Porter Stomp" . . . Rumor's flying around that Stan Brown's Gold Coast Orchestra may appear on Benny...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 5/26/1939 | See Source »

Music by Ruby Newman, intermission entertainment by the Boston Junior jitterbug champions, a snake-charmer, and a magician, and readings by palmists and character artists will feature Eliot's spring dance, slated for 10 to 3 o'clock on Friday, May 12. There will be dancing on the terrace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 5/4/1939 | See Source »

...jitterbug," confessed the hit of the show as she was being thronged by autograph seekers after the rendition of her theme song, "Je vous aime beaucoup...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Book Published by University Press Is Given Coveted Pulitzer History Prize | 5/2/1939 | See Source »

...knows how much of it Louis really did start and how much of it was river boat and Harlemese. But the fact remains that a great many of his early records contained the slang that musicians use today. You won't hear musicians talking about "licorice sticks" (a jitterbug term for clarinet) whereas you will hear them talking about "gage" and "tea" (two terms for marijuana...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 4/14/1939 | See Source »

...Huckleberry give a delicious parody on Romeo and Juliet. But such antics are all too infrequent, and even the melodramatic steamboat-race climax fails to save Twain from Hollywood. Funnier is the companion picture, "Blondie Meets the Boss" in which "Baby Dumpling" gives an uproarious imitation of a modern jitterbug...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

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