Word: jived
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pontiac Star Parade (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Song-and-Dance Men Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor, with an assist from Carol (West Side Story) Lawrence, jive it up on The Gene Kelly Show. Color...
...imagination of Author Shulman, ricochet along high school corridors in 1959. Dobie starts out safely enough, tells what "bugs" him, what's "a gasser," who's "kooky" and "all that jazz." But in no time at all, the gassers have become "marvy," the jazz is "jive," and people start "yacking away." An echo from the past informs everyone to "stay loose." Another, from the Dark Ages, adds...
...Edward Byrnes, who in three short weeks has become the hottest new property on records. The source of Byrnes's top-of-the-head fame is a peculiarly wolfish ditty called Kookie, Kookie (Warner Bros.) in which Byrnes sings scarcely a note. His contribution is a series of jive lingo replies to a marshmallow-voiced girl who implores him over and over again: "Kookie, Kookie, lend me your comb!" Sample answer...
...selling albums, plus as many nightclub engagements as it can handle (including a Las Vegas offer that may go to $3,000 a week). A columnist suffering from typewriter fatigue recently, tagged the trio the Gilbert & Sullivans of Jazz. A more apt title might be the James Joyces of Jive...
...Down Under teenagers. At one meeting some 2,000 of them stepped forward after he had pitched them a line of rock 'n' rollery: "In America, teenagers have a language all their own and think that grownups are all squares because they can't dig the jive. I heard of one of these cats who went to church and said to the minister: 'Dad, you really blasted me this morning-you were real cool, Dad-cool, I mean cool, Dad. That jive of yours so beat me that I dropped $20 in the plate...