Word: jiving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that a record be judged, as a whole, by its final effect. This way we find that only three artists have maintained a consistently high standard along with a large output: Duke Ellington, Teddy Wilson, and Mildred Bailey. Ellington and Wilson are fairly well-known, even among the lowest jive-addict, but Bailey, unfortunately, is a different case. To the swing fan she is just another singer, out of touch with the present "standards" of sexy song-singing. He probably first heard her when she sang with Goodman, bought a record of their joint efforts, and left it at that...
...colonel's silver leaves on maneuvers in Louisiana (see cut). Senator A. B. ("Happy") Chandler's 16-year-old torchsinging daughter Mimi went to Hollywood from Kentucky, won a screen test that won her a seven-year contract with Paramount. Into a movie as vocalists with jump-&-jive Bob Crosby's band went a pair of richly endowed twins (see cut): scrumptious Lee & Lynn Wilde, 18, who swore they were the grandnieces of Epigrampus Oscar Wilde. In Miami, Albert John Capone, younger brother of Scarface Al, changed his family's name to Rayola...
Then big things happened. NBC-Blue signed Dinah as jive-diva on its Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street program. She became the darling of le jazz hot. Then Eddie Cantor hired her. She recorded Yes, My Darling Daughter, which sold half a million. A year later she started her own show. Now a minor Big Business (her earnings this year will run about $115,000), Dinah is handled by a board of five...
...Married. Jive-diva Ella Logan, 29; and Writer-Producer Fred F. Finklehoffe, 32; in Greenwich, Conn. He collaborated on Brother Rat, produced Show Time, now starring his bride on Broadway...
Unfortunately there are only four records now listed which represent Newton's genius adequately, three on Bluebird under his name. "Minor Jive" is momentarily unavailable, but the other two may still be found in the record shops. "The World Is Waiting" is a marvelous example of Newton's modesty and simplicity, and "Blues My Baby Gave To Me" is among the finest blues solos ever recorded. Frank's solo on the remaining record, Bessie Smith's "Gimme a Pigfoot," on UHCA, is already legendary...