Word: mcbrides
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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SABOTAGE -Cleve F. Adams-Dutton ($2). Irishman McBride, who has practically no morals, gets interested in the repeated accidents at the Palos Verde Dam project. McBride robustly progresses through a tough town teeming with blondes, brunettes, fist fights, murders...
Young Dr. Harold Aaron of Manhattan, author of a book on constipation, spent a year collecting many of the latest medical wrinkles that laymen need to know. Last week he published a cheery home companion. Good Health and Bad Medicine (McBride; $3), giving scientific advice on colds, bellyaches, feet, tooth decay, pimples, laxatives, painkillers, hair tonics...
...Swing Stuff" is a clarinet concerto written by Robert McBride, who also does the solo clarinet work. The point is that the thing is supposed to be an approximation of swing, only being arranged. I have always thought that writing solos takes something away--and here is the proof...
...heat," "bite" that makes good swing thrilling is completely lacking here. McBride's solo work is interesting technically, but adds up to some strings of spaghetti as far as getting any, idea of swing across. A written solo is so polished that it loses the life which is the essence of swing. It's too full of notes--if you don't believe it, listen to this record, and then to some of the old Goodman Trio records or Irving Fazola's doings with Bob Crosby...