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...Roll 'Em Pete; and the two-sided Boogie-Woogie Prayer, featuring Johnson, Ammons, and Meade Lux Lewis. These records are vastly superior to the ones put out in the older Decca Album . . . Cootie Williams plays trumpet and sings on Benny Goodman's COLUMBIA recording of Let the Door Knob Hitoha. Cootie's vocal is fine, but just try and figure out the lyrics. Reverse is Perfidia, and the arrangement of this tune makes it excellent for dancing. I don't know whether or not these sides were made since Dave Tough joined the Goodman band, but my guess would...

Author: By Charles Miller, | Title: Swing | 3/1/1941 | See Source »

...stepped into his room, he noticed that his little mantle-model radio was on the floor. But the surprising fact was that the machine had grown to tremendous proportions with the top above Vag's head and the tuning knob as large as a door handle. Perplexed, Vag warily tugged on the knob. The whole front panel responded to his pull; and Vag slipped through the slit he had opened and looked about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 2/13/1941 | See Source »

...main advantage of the set as I have it now," he shouted over the rumblings emerging from the knob-covered instruments that litter his desk, "is that it's transportable. I can run downstairs and pack the whole thing in my car, hitch it up to a storage battery, and serve as a highly efficient motorized radio emergency patrol...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Radio Ham Operates Own Station in Weld, and Plans to Use It in Case of Emergency | 11/29/1939 | See Source »

...Last week the Chicago Daily Times sent Reporter Dan Smyth (no kin) and a photographer out from murky Chicago to look for spring. Two days later they reported finding it at Bald Knob...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Weather Gagman | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...Knob, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 6, 1939 | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

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