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...relation to Studs, also of Chicago, or Wayne, late of the R. C. A. F. and Beckman Hill.) The company liked them well enough to arrange a return engagement a week later, at which time the boys gave birth to the classic disc of "Nobody's Sweetheart" and "Liza...

Author: By S/sgt GEORGE Avaklan, | Title: JAZZ, ETC. | 11/9/1943 | See Source »

...looks as though the freezing over of the Charles gave some 'Poon men a chance to reenact Harriet Beecher Stowe's Little Liza 'cross the ice with the rest of the this-side-of-the-river Harvard population filling in as the blood-hounds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BUSY SCHOOL PUBLISHES 'POONISH PINK SHEET | 1/12/1943 | See Source »

...Died. Liza Hardoon, 78, reputedly the wealthiest woman in the Orient; in Shanghai. A Chinese, she was the blind, recluse widow of Silas Aaron Hardoon, a Jew from Bagdad who rose from night watchman in an opium warehouse to possessor of a fortune of some $50,000,000, most of it Shanghai real estate. Hardoon turned Buddhist, built a private temple within his high-walled estate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 13, 1941 | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

...this week's Victor release of his "Rosetta" as a piano....On the same disc is a solo that he cut ten years ago for Victor that was never released. Ought to be worth listening to....Jimmy Lunceford's stuff has suffered lately from bad recording, his platter of "Liza" being a good example...

Author: By Michael Levin, (SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CRIMSON.) | Title: SWING | 1/12/1940 | See Source »

...hall have begun to hear it. Drummer Buddy Schutz and trombonist Don Matteson are two of the best. Besides having a marvelous classical background, one of tenor saxman Herby Haymer's joys in life is to work in things like "Hymn to the Sun" in arrangements of "Liza"--also making faces that only a mother could love or a jitterbug appreciate...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 11/17/1939 | See Source »

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