Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good Prince had possessed the keen scent of an avid slot-machine addict he would have been disturbed way back in 1933 - for I still recall as my most embarrassing moment standing at the cashier's window requesting change of a 10-franc note for my father who, though not the least interested in gambling, had discovered a dusty old slot machine in a forsaken corner of the famous Casino. I changed the lowly 10-franc note and Father broke the slot machine. Really...
Sheaves to Rye. Three trombonists-blond Eddie Anderson (from Sonny Dunham's band), slicked Norman Conley (Eddie Stone's) and curly-haired Chuck Maxon (Paul Whiteman's)-growled "Pedal G," their lowest possible note. The reeds began to wail. When the melody of the old hymn, Bringing in the Sheaves, roared through, Brick nodded happily: "It's in there." He lit a cigaret, drank a glass of water and visited the control room, all the time directing the band with his pinkie, and rocking his head like a strutting turkey gobbler...
Later they recorded three more sides: the mood, Pastiche, a violent Rimsky-Korsakov; the two "jumpers," Double Doghouse (using two bass fiddles instead of one) and A Slight Case of the Shakes, Brick's version of a hangover. "Not a clinker" (sour note), said the maestro happily...
...Editor's note: Thanks very much, but did we say something...
...late Ernie Pyle saw it. Pyle himself (played in the film by Burgess Meredith) and nine fellow correspondents supervised and vouched for the movie's hard-bitten authenticity. The result is far & away the least glamorous war picture ever made. It is a movie without a single false note. It is not "entertainment" in the usual sense, but General Eisenhower called it "the greatest war picture I've ever seen...