Word: lomond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the numbers are Basie's own compositions or new arrangements like his "One O'clock Jump," and feature plenty of his intense piano work. Basie's stubby fingers undoubtedly have the touch for jump rhythm. Maxine Sullivan does "Loch Lomond" in her own manner, of course. She also sings a very good "Saint Louis Blues." Both these performers deserve the name artist, because they both know how to eliminate frills. Basie doesn't hit any extra notes that turn so much hot piano playing into noise. And Maxine Sullivan does not slide around her notes after the fashion...
...Polish Army choir has further built up good will by adding a Slavic swing to the highland lilt of Loch Lomond and Bonnie Dundee...
sang her swing version of Loch Lomond at the Princeton Class of 1930 > reunion, beery old grads gave her one locomotive (Princeton cheer...
Died. Captain D. S. King, 33, British Airways pilot, who flew the plane that carried Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to Germany during the Munich crisis in 1938; in a plane crash near Loch Lomond. Two other crisis pilots have also died in air crashes...
Almost everybody was seasick. Their moans of misery made a fitting background to the scene. Some of us sang. Speed Bonny Boat and Loch Lomond were inevitable if inappropriate choices, and they must have sounded dismal, but they warmed...