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...worry about sex at a distance of six feet when most of the brain space is being devoted to the quite difficult problem of keeping one's balance. Jitterbugging is hard work--vaguely like a track meet. Seems to me that the dreamy-eyed couples floating along to Guy Lombardo's dulcet strains have much more opportunity for sex, unadulterated, than does the genus jitterbug...
...Miller. Says he: "I told them how to develop an individual style. A band must have a recognizable style so that when kids start to play a record, they can listen for a minute and then say 'Why, that's Benny Goodman-or Tommy Dorsey or Guy Lombardo.' Dorsey used to hold his trombone solo until the third chorus. I saw to it that every record he made for me started with a Dorsey solo...
...Phonograph Record, Player Piano, and Carmen Lombardo," a satire by Alec Templeton is very, very funny, especially the first and last. Wish Templeton would do more of this instead of trying to play jazz (at which he is very bad) and classical (at which he isn't too good) His satire and musical sense of humor is better than anyone I have heard, and it would seem as though a little division of labor is necessary...
Notes between the notes: After years of mayhem committed on a hapless public, Guy Lombardo has finally relented and convinced brother Carmen that someone else should take care of the Lombardo lyrics. Nominee is a bird by the name of Mert Curtis, who used to sing for Russ Morgan. . . . Victor claims that it is going to swipe Duke Ellington, Horace Heldt, Kay Kayser, and a couple of other bands away from Columbia records in February. All we can say is that this record racket, which totalled 70,000,000 sales last year, is really getting vicious...
Other editors' "musts": Guy Lombardo's orchestra (Jukebox Champion Glenn Miller fifth, Swingster Benny Goodman seventh); Arturo Toscanini for symphonies; Bing Crosby for popular songs; Nelson Eddy for classics; Songstress Frances Langford, Sportscaster Bill Stern, Newscaster Lowell Thomas, Studio Announcer Don Wilson. Favorite dramatic program: Cecil B. DeMille's Lux Radio Theatre; favorite children's program: Nila Mack's Let's Pretend; favorite quarter-hour: Fred Waring's. Outstanding 1939 star: blind British Piano Wag Alec Templeton...