Word: joshing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next came folk singers Josh (One Meat Ball) White, Burl (Blue Tail Fly) Ives and Woody (Ballads from the Dust Bowl) Guthrie, and jazz purists like Pianist Mary Lou Williams and Saxophonist Coleman Hawkins, and guitar-strumming Balladeer Richard Dyer-Bennet, singing Elizabethan love lyrics. His best sellers: Burl Ives, and an album of American country dances...
...Alan Lomax went on the air, introduced Burl (Blue-Tailed Fly) Ives, Josh (One Meat Ball) White, Woody (Dust Bowl Ballads) Guthrie and Lead Belly, a Negro minstrel who had done time for murder, and was an encyclopedia of "sinful" songs (TIME, May 15, 1939). Lomax, now a hefty Army private, disapproves of his own twangy Texas voice, uses it constantly to "sell the Archive." At sings late at night in his Greenwich Village apartment, he is often joined by his sister, Bess Lomax Hawes, who has handled the music for OWI's overseas broadcasts. By last week...
...Society Downtown, hot-jazz addicts often have a cozy feeling that they are spectators at a big-league preview. In his Greenwich Village boogie basement, Proprietor Barney Josephson has introduced (or given a Manhattan-sized helping hand to) such competent performers as the Golden Gate Quartet, Josh ("One Meat Ball") White, Baritone Kenneth Spencer, Georgia ("Her Nibs") Gibbs, Hazel Scott.* Last week it looked as if Barney Josephson had found another...
...years Fish Ball was kept alive by long-memoried minstrels. Jimmy Savo made the newest recording of the modern version for Decca. But bobby-soxers already knew the recordings of Josh White, Tony Pastor, the Andrews Sisters...
...disconsolately stuck an ice pick in his heart; the story of Mr. & Mrs. Malloy, who in 1935 moved into an abandoned boiler in a vacant lot on Cannery Row, and quarreled because Mrs. Malloy wanted curtains for the windows that weren't there; the true story of Josh Billings, the famed humorist, who died in Monterey and whose insides, removed by a local undertaker, got carelessly scattered around town...