Word: likes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bernard Griffin looks like the best of the Sophomores in the sprint events and he will be aided by Charles Boozan, Jim Green, Art McClure, all veterans, and Tom Sullivan, last year's Freshman captain...
...depending on the ear of the listener, used to hearing four-four tempos from marches and other dance tunes, to remember that tempo; then from the very beginning of the record, the band proceeded to play ahead of this implied beat. Push, push, push, till the record sounds like a pile driver with St. Vitus dance. Drive is the whole object of this style of playing...
Many bands either drag when they try it, or think that the nervous excitement resulting from the "stiff" drive style is better. Goodman used to think so, and things like "Sing, Sing, Sing" resulted. But people soon tire of the constant pound of the style and grow sick of the dearth of ideas in the music. So Goodman is trying to shift his band to the other style. Whether he will succeed is a moot question...
...That's why all new bands, bands of all-stars, bands mixing two beat and four beat men are bad. You can't have a mixture of ideas about the "proper lag" and get the swing. For unity, a really good swing band must make a football team look like the Tower of Babel...
Anderson, a graduate student in English, specializing in the drama explained that the policy of reviving Restoration comedies and the like had failed to hold student interest, and was dropped after a "fizzle" in '37. "Now we even fight the tendency of importing feminine leads," Anderson said...