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...Band Leader Lionel Hampton announced the names of the selections he would play at a Carnegie Hall concert: Be-Bop, Re-Bop, Oo-Bop, Zoo-Bop, Ee-Oo-Bop and The Crystal Suite...
...Pronounced moo-oo-moo-oo...
...rehearsals and broadcasts, got pointers on microphone technique, learned how to tap time properly with the feet (the heel, not the toe). They were also exposed to such Waring inspirations as Tone-Syllables, a phonetic method of lyric singing ("Mah-ee Bahn-nee lah-ee-zo-oo-vuhr thee o-oo-shun"). By the end of the eight-week semester, all the students, including eight nuns, were fairly groovy...
...York Public Library dissecting hit songs of the previous 30 years. All popular songs, he cunningly concluded, fell into well-defined categories: 1) love songs, 2) nonsense songs, 3) jingles, 4) songs built around a silly syllable. Of these syllables, Billy discovered, the double-o sound-"oo"-was the most successful. On this principle, he carefully constructed some sound effects called Barney Google ("with the goo goo googly eyes"). Just as his calculations had indicated, it was a smash hit. Having shortened his name to Rose, Billy lengthened his list of popular song hits and that year made more than...
...with odds & ends from a ham set, a few parts scrounged from Army discards and about $100 worth of equipment that he bought himself. He talked Sergeant Jack Willis into being the station's announcer because Willis, a Nova Scotian, could pronounce Eskimo names like "Plluluk" (pronounced Pell-oo-look) without a bobble. Last winter they set up their equipment in the second floor of Aklavik's Signals Station, and by December they were broadcasting with 30-watt power on 1,230 kilocycles. They did so well that last week they had a broadcasting license...