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...made the top 20 with their interpretations. In 1938 the song was #1 again, in a duet by Bing Crosby and Connee Boswell; another Crosby duet, this time with Al Jolson, hit the top-20 in 1947. Johnny Mercer charted a swing version in 1945, and Nellie Lutcher put it on the R&B charts (#13) in 1948. Add Ray Charles' brilliant big-band take in 1959, and "Alexander" had a dozen hit versions in a bit under a half century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Christmas Feeling: Irving America | 12/24/2001 | See Source »

...Home-Ma's Upstairs (Nellie Lutcher; Capitol; 45 r.p.m.). Another empty-parlor innuendo by the breathless, excitable Nellie Lutcher of Hurry On Down fame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Mar. 26, 1951 | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

Jack Smith Show (Fri. 7:15 p.m., CBS). Guest: trumpet-voiced Nightclub Songstress Nellie Lutcher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Nov. 3, 1947 | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

...husky nightclub handyman shoved the Steinway out to the center of the floor. The lights went down; over a shattering fanfare, a voice roared out the name that in the past month has become the talk of Manhattan's barfly set. Nellie Lutcher, a buxom 5 ft. 9 in a long white gown, swept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hurry On Down | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

...going to fight you like hell," Regent H. J. Lutcher Stark told Rainey in 1940 when the latter refused to remove three members of the faculty without a hearing. "I doubt the wisdom and propriety of you, as president of the University, urging or suggesting that a member of the Board of Regents refrain from doing anything whatsoever," wrote Regent D. F. Strickland in 1943 to Texas' president. Under the Board's rules a university president is supposed to be the professional adviser to the Board, but for several months Texas' Regents excluded President Rainey from their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Trouble in Texas | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

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