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First of all, none of the words used in the song . . . were intended to have any particular meaning. Last October, Jerry Brandow and Larry Kent, two comedian-dancers, played a "lick" for me to which the words "Hold-tight, hold-tight, hold-tight, hold-tight -want some seafood mama ! Shrimpers and rice, they're very nice" went. The two boys explained that they had heard the words and music either in a New York or Philadelphia night club where a colored band was playing. . . . We made a recording of the words and music to that point in a Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 15, 1939 | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...reached its stride, and with it came complaints from Si Oliver, arranger for Jimmy Lunceford, who claimed it came from his arrangement of Dear Old Southland, from Gene Krupa who said he made it up in one of his earlier Brunswick records, from Count Basic who has used the lick in numerous of his arrangements. Jerry Kreuger, a 52nd Street singer, said she has used the line "Don't get icky with the 1-2-3" in New York since last summer after hearing it in the Catskills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 15, 1939 | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...Wallace Beery, and the nascent Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Forced to sell his plantation, Taylor becomes involved in the general struggle for a livelihood. He sprouts a beard, learns to use a six-shooter to drive nails with, and succeeds in becoming so tough that he can lick Wallace Beery. Florence Rice appears as the owner of the state line, and provides the romantic element. However, our Bob has learned to put business before pleasure and it is only after he has settled accounts with Beery that he succumbs to the charms of Susan. Seasoned as it is with occasional...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

Most of the airplane disasters in the winters of 1936-38 were attributable to weather. So last fall the operators pulled up their socks and determined to lick this factor in 1938-39. They did. During the 1938-39 winter, not a single airliner crashed because of weather. But other troubles reared their ugly heads. Two of the three crashes of the past five months, it was officially revealed last week, were due to mechanical failure. The third was United's West Coast mishap, due to egregious pilot error (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Rueful Receiver | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

Mumford's Action. The fugleman for Camp No. 2 is Lewis Mumford. Famed U. S. critic and social planner, he in his Men Must Act ($1.50) declared with much emotion and not a little practicality for a plan to stymie the dictators first, then lick them if necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Who's for War? | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

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