Word: listened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think of anything quite as bad as cashing in on one's own patriotism--which is exactly what they're doing today. Perhaps it's not quite fair to deny even the Boys From Lindy's a certain measure of emotional or ideological impulse, but when you listen to the results you don't even have to stop and wonder...
...pretended to play hot music, but he was an excellent showman and had one of the finest dance orchestras in the country. The Album will definitely be welcome. . . . Dinah Shore's best record to date is Memphis Blues, a BLUEBIRD Vocadance. If you've missed hearing her, you should listen to this record, and you might notice the similarity to Mildred Bailey--unfortunately, however, lacking in that swell undisciplined quality that only Mildred can work into a tune...
...water line, with no water for bathing, scanty food. Once they were allowed to go on deck to see the funeral of a woman who had died of shrapnel wounds. Those lucky enough to stay on the raider itself had it easier, were allowed to play cards and listen to the radio, but their food was no better...
...feeling pretty pleased with himself. Lucky Strike's Hit Parade he called the "bit parade." Meanwhile B. M. I. President Neville Miller, hero-mayor of the 1937 Louisville flood, boasted that many a station had been complimented on "the freshness and adequacy of B. M. I. music." Some listeners reacted otherwise. Ten thousand musicians, composers, educators signed petitions asking FCC to knock both B. M. I.'s and ASCAP's heads together so that radio listeners would have something fit to listen...
...Creole Trombone, a good example of the old New Orleans parade style . . . Another COLUMBIA reissue that should be on your list is Benny Goodman's 1934 Moonglow, featuring Jack and Charlie Teagarden, Teddy Wilson, and Benny himself . . . If you want to know where Meade Lux Lewis got his style, listen to his old-time teacher Jimmy Yancey, on Yancey's Bugle Call and 35th and Dearborn (VICTOR). Jimmy plays in a nice easy-going style, with bass figures somewhat more elaborate than those of Meade Lux . . . Since I wrote about ASCAP-BMI I learned from a very unreliable source that...