Word: libbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...replacement for billowing Mary Margaret, Early Bird Godfrey will provide a drastic change of fare. His voice is wheezy, his manner tough, and he is addicted to spoofing his sponsors. During his rambling ad lib discussions on life, love, flying or coal mining, he frequently salutes his supporters with such outbursts as: "Well, well, Zlotnick the Furrier. Go down and kick old Zlotnick in the shins. Kick him once...
That's the way a good jazz artist works, in an effortless, unassuming manner, always injecting just the right kind of "kick" into the improvisation. Nearly all of Crosby's many Decca recording are done in this style, and they show him to be a master of the ad lib, a good example of which is Small Fry, not exactly hot music, but with that quality of informal spontaneity which you hear in Louie Armstrong and others. Best of all is his famous Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams, where Bing discovered that he was singing the wrong part...
...loudspeakers of Congress must be heard no matter how inane, bromidic and repetitious their statements are. For example, the whole country knows how Senator Blank feels and where he stands; it and his colleagues have heard him ad lib and ad nauseam and yet he takes up time, creates confusion and dissension, and accomplishes no good, makes no constructive suggestions and in fact has degenerated into a common scold...
...named Colin Campbell. Campbell's combination, released under a Commodore Music Shop label, includes Clarinetist Pee Wee Russell, Guitarist Eddie Condon and, most notably, Fats Waller. Because of his Victor contract, Waller uses the nom de piano of Maurice, his nine-year-old son. His improvisations and ad lib choruses have much more sound invention than he ordinarily waxes for Victor. Of the four sides of jam and jazz classics, Georgia Grind provides most Waller, most listening...
...lib faster than I can," gurgled goggle-eyed Eddie Cantor, impressed not only by Harmon's velvety-smooth radio voice but his unshakable poise. The $900 he received for singing and clowning with Cantor promptly classed Harmon as a professional, barred him from continuing to play basketball and baseball at Michigan this spring. But to Tom Harmon it was worth it. From East and West came radio offers (including a fabulous tie-up with Bing Crosby), movie contracts from Warner Brothers and M. G. M., a flood of fan letters (including just the imprint of a girl...