Word: jiving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
This week on the dance list is Ray Belaire, who will spoon out the jive for the Funsters at their Spring Costume Ball next Friday. Lowell's Blackout Ball Costume Party is the same night...
...extremely rapid, violent, and hard to resist; totalitarian: of or having to do with a government controlled by one political group that permits no other political groups"). But youths found that in some respects their dictionary shortchanges them. Conspicuously missing are such well-rooted youthful words as jitterbug, jive...
...around the 32 bar theme. . . For a girl vocal trio that really swings (Andrews Sisters please note), listen to the Dandridge Sisters with Jinunie Lunceford on Red Wagon and You Ain't Nowhere (COLUMBIA). Trio and orchestra work together smoothly in two fine novelty tunes. . . Frog voiced, one-armed jive artist Wingy Mannone cuts two sides of terrific undisciplined jazz Dinner For the Duchess and Wingy Mannene cuts two sides of terrific undisciplined jazzy Dinner For the Duchess and When I Get You Alone Tonight (BLUEBIRD). Wingly's seat choruses are featured on both sides, and Dixieland fans will...