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Robinson, known as Sugar among his coffee-colored pals, is a jive artist, cocky, quick-witted, high-strung and footloose. A typical product of Harlem's sidewalks, he loves boogie-woogie, would rather dance than eat. "I can't get that boy to eat enough to keep a flea alive," moans Trainer Gainford. "He lives off hot dogs, ice cream, cake and dancing...
...sides from Walt Disney's Dumbo, and eleven Bluebird (Victor's cheaper label) albums. Seven of the eleven albums are the work of Helen Myers, who is the Rodgers & Hart of pint-sized music. Miss Myers, onetime Oklahoma City Junior Leaguer, Phi Beta Kappa, concert and jive pianist (a year at Manhattan's Rainbow Room), composer of moderately successful popular songs, has been with Victor for two years, dreaming up ideas for the children's list. In the current lot are: Long-Name-No-Can-Say (about a Chinese baby with a long name); One String...
...Reel and Rock with the Deacon's Flock" will soon be the cry in Kirkland's Common Room. The Deacons are expecting to cough up 30 bucks for the latest in jive and jazz. Rug cutter Ted (Jo McGurk) Meredith is in charge of expenditures and has put up a suggestion sheet on the Dining Room bulletin board...
...brown eyes, still Nordic as an Axel Paulsen, whooshes through her dramadventure with commendable vigor and a fetching show of talent, and she has the advantage of having dieted away considerable poundage for this new appearance. As an able-bodied refugee, she becomes the embarrassing charge of a jive pianist .(Jonn Payne), who thought he was adopting an infant war orphan. But when he discovers she can ski, he gladly chucks his indoors blues singer (Lynn Bari) for his Nasturtium of the North...
...that it brought many people nearer a kind of music they hadn't understood before. The growth of popularity of improvised jazz, built around the individual self-expression of the musician, has been a direct result of the interest of people who looked behind the jump-jump and the jive, and the screeching horns and shimmying drummers, but it still has a long way to go. Writing in the Sunday Herald Tribune a couple of weeks ago, Benny Goodman hit the proverbial nail on the axiomatic head when he said, "The music the word 'swing' stands for in the minds...