Word: orlandus
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Tenors Willie Langford and Henry Owen, Baritone Willie Johnson and Basso Orlandus Wilson began singing together in Norfolk, Va.'s Booker T. Washington High School, got on local radio programs even before they graduated in 1935. They had already been on records (Bluebird) and the radio before they were discovered, barnstorming the South, by crew-cropped Jazz Pundit John Hammond. He presented them to Manhattan more than a year ago, and Café Society shortly signed them. Tenor Clyde Riddick took Willie Langford's place in the quartet...
...girl choir sang these strange, loose lines of melody with dignity and devotion. Listeners found them equally able when they undertook the complicated part-writing of Orlandus de Lassus and Tallis. They thrilled when the girls implored God's mercy in a hymn which flagellants are said to" have howled along German roads in the plague year...
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