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...Again, variety shows were the audiences' favorite class. Second place went to classical music, third to aerial dramas. Close behind were serials, which make up 84.9% of daytime programs. Also in the van on the C. A. B. books were the audience-participation shows, with Kay Kyser's College of Musical Knowledge and Pot o' Gold listed among the first...
...RECORDS: Hazy and Blue,: a nice job on the Templeton tune by Kay Kyser. Song itself sounds like the concert jazz that was the range in the middle thirties... "Perfidia" by Nana Rodrigo is listed as a bolero, but that's about as far as the boleroness of the thing goes. Sounds vaguely like a foxtrot that was told to go South American, met a rhumba on the way and gave up in the middle... Tiger Rag"--this tune has been torn apart for so many years by so many bands, that any version is apt to sound trite...
Among cheerleaders who were born too soon to get their crossed megaphones: Band Leader Kay Kyser, whose North Carolina cheerios of 1927 set an alltime high note in Southern cheerleading...
...Gold. Horace Heidt's kampuskut orchestra has been rah-rahing since 1923, but has had to play frequent second fiddle to such fraternity-row favorites as Fred Waring, Kay Kyser. But this season, sponsored by Turns, a carminative, Horace Heidt's Musical Knights went out in front with a burp. During Turns' Tuesday night half hour, a wheel of fortune is ceremoniously spun several times, eventually coming to rest on a telephone number somewhere in the U. S. A call is put in for the unnamed subscriber. The band plays on, but when the phone is answered...
...fastidious stomachs, is all about some "itty fitties" who "fam and dey fam" until they "taw a TARK!" (shark). Den dey fam back to deir poo. The publishers, wary of overplugging Three Little Fishies, withheld it from all but a few big orchestral names-Hal Kemp, Guy Lombardo, Kay Kyser, Paul Whiteman, each of whom recorded it. The song was plugged on the radio by Mildred Bailey, Fannie Brice, Judy Starr. Along with the itty fitties, fat Saxie Dowell fam into such fame that he is now thinking of leaving Hal Kemp and starting a band...