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...such top performers as the two Fasanos, a blonde-brunette sister team, and Singer Carla Boni and the Angelini Orchestra, the tunes were the kind that might be danced to in any cantina, whistled by any office boy. But the lyrics were different. Sang the Fasano sisters to a one-step that sounded something like The Donkey Serenade...
...full house of fans long to warm up. Benny gave the beat for Don't Be That Way. From then on, as Benny himself remembers it, "they were shrieking. They wanted to tear the place down." For three solid hours it went on, through One O'Clock Jump, Dixieland One-Step, I'm Comin' Virginia, Shine, Big John's Special. A roar went up after Trumpeter Harry James's first solo. There were screams after Benny's first liquid clarinet work, and Pianist Jess Stacy's five choruses in Sing, Sing, Sing...
...Stompers' presentation of tunes ranged from popular stand-bys such as "Blue Skies" to all the New Orleans classies like "Dixieland One-Step" and 'That's Aplenty...
...citywide song contest, had just what it takes to make a carnaval hit: a catchy tune (reminiscent of the Maine Stein Song) and a daffy lyric. Because the government was out to make carnaval bigger & better after some wartime flops, De Barro and Ribeiro wrote Cat in lilting, one-step marcha time-quicker even than the sprightly samba beat...
...reporting the courtship of the future Mrs. Rickenbacker (Lynn Bari), equally pleasant attention is given to the one-step, the waltz, even the schottische, to tunes like Too Much Mustard and Missouri Waltz. There is much easy fun with linen dusters, carbide headlights, rachitic engines and foozling radiators. For well-articulated comedy and for beauty of evocative detail, this is one of the pictures of the year...