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...breakfast and lunch she has coffee and oatmeal, "with lots of sugar-that's for vitality." Her dinners are hearty. "Good eatin's and good keepin's" is Grandma's recipe for health. At 10 o'clock Grandma is ready for bed: "The minute my head hits the pillow I'm dead to the world." She sleeps on an old feather tick under an electric blanket...
...cooked up some good ones before. Among them: Ain't Misbehavin', I've Got a Feelin' I'm Fallin', Keepin' Out of Mischief Now. Waller has collaborated with many a lyricist. Some of his best results he turned out with Andy Razaf, his favorite poet next to Longfellow.* During one rewarding session in retreat at Anbury Park, N.J., the two men turned out Zonky, My Fate Is in Your Hands and Honeysuckle Rose in two hours. Razaf had enticed Waller into his mother's Asbury Park home for a productive session away...
...Fond of sweets, too, he is. What you call candy over here. Keeps a bottle of sweets on the bridge. Well, we're fond of sweets ourselves and every now and then we manage to pinch one or two. It's a matter of keepin' one eye on the bottle of sweets and one on the Admiral like. There'd been some complaints about it, and I heard the flag officer say: 'Shall I take your bottle of sweets down to the cabin, sir, and put 'em away?' And old Splash Guts answers...
...Delivery Stomp by Artie Shaw's Gramercy Five (VICTOR). Featured is Billy Butterfield, whose muted trumpet beats Muggsy at his own game. Also heard are Johnny Guarneri, playing a harpsichord (!),, and Nick Fatool, whose drumming is reminiscent of Krupa at his best. Whole record jumps like hell. Reverse in Keepin' Myself For You, and makes good dancing...Count Basic cuts two sides of fast blues entitled The World Is Mad (OKEH), and stars the tenor sax of Lester Young, who plays some almost unbelievable jazz. Jo Jones and the rhythm section are exceptionally good...Harlan Leonard and his Kansas City...
Other good dance tunes: Keepin' Myself for You and Until Love Comes Along (Brunswick), Sing, You Sinners and In My Little Hope Chest (Victor), Puttin' on the Ritz and With You (Brunswick), The One Girl and Happy Days Are Here Again (Columbia), The One I Love Just Can't Be Bothered with Me and Blue, Turning Gray Over You (Victor...