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From the beach, factory executives in shirt sleeves, mechanics in overalls watched the new 52-passenger ship as she swung out past Point Loma. Among them, none watched more intently than Engineer David Richard Davis, because none had a bigger stake in her than he. For David Davis had designed her slim no-foot wing, had calculated on the drawing board and in the wind tunnel that it was close to perfection...
Heard the new Casa Loma (Decca) album and it was well worth it. With the exception of Murray McEachern, trombone-sax man recently acquired from Benny Goodman, the band doesn't play much swing. But it does play a great deal of the ensemble work that made it famous as a dance outfit and for excellent commercial. Catch Louis Armstrong's duet with PeeWee Hunt for the difference between someone that phrases and one that just sings . . . Also heard the Victor Herbert album, and while it isn't swing, it is swell melodic stuff--recorded perfectly and done in admirable...
Notes between the notes: Tommy Reynolds, playing at the Parker House next Wednesday, showed up as having quite a good band in his battle of music with Red Norvo a short time ago... Casa Loma's new album for Decca is supposed to be excellent, with Louis setting in as guest trumpet player on "Rockin" Chair"... Court decisions get more complicated with one judge in New Orleans recently handing down a decision to the effect that "the aforesaid plaintiff does have a solid band in the true New Orleans style, and should therefore he paid his wages...
...Goodman's arrangement) and "How Am I To Know"; "Study in Green" bears strange resemblances to one of Glenn Miller's riff tunes; "Midnight in Madhouse" has a large chunk of Ambrose's "Night Ride" present; "Chant of the Jungle" is an almost exact carbon of the old Casa Loma arrangement; these are just a few of Mr. Clinton's attempts at being original. Benny Goodman imitates Count Basic; but at least he has the courtesy to put Basic's name down as the author of the music he is playing. Clinton does (and badly) Pine Top Smith's "Boogie...
Then to finish off the program, Dan Fleckinger '41, Dave Bennison 1L, and Bill Whitcraft '39 played two Goodman trio numbers with Fleckinger turning in a passable facsimile of Ted Lewis, and then the Crimsonians smoothly swung Goodman's "One O'clock Jump" with Casa Loma's "White Heat" as an encore...