Word: pickups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...record changer has a double tone arm, shaped like a big tuning fork, whose prongs, each equipped with a needle and pickup, swing out over both sides of the record at once. Records are dropped from the stack on to a miniature turntable which leaves the grooved surface of both sides exposed. The upper side of the record is played by the upper prong. Then the record automatically begins to turn backward, and the lower prong plays the lower side. Then the record slips down a chute, and No. 2 drops into place...
...overcomes any little obstacles of poor recording to show his earlier style of playing to advantage, though most of the numbers sound quite dated. Among the single records the best is the great Red Norvo "Blues in E Flat," one of the greatest improvised performances ever made by a pickup band of colored and white musicians. Bunny Berrigan, Teddy Wilson, Chu Berry, and Johnny Mince, late of Tommy Dorsey, combine their talents to produce one of the most satisfying jazz records of the past ten years . . . George Frazier '33, the Boston jazz critic who has frequently graced the Crimson Network...
...interesting to compare these records with the later performances by some of the players. Bunny Berigan, in particular, must be pretty envious when he listens to his work with Mildred Bailey, Bud Freeman's Windy City Five, and his own pickup band, playing with a power and assurance which he seems to have lost. Records like "Chicken Waffles" and "The Buzzard" show the way he played before he began to spend all his time groping about his shaky upper register for the edification of the assembled jitterbugs. All of which shows what years of constantly playing down to the crowd...
...first time in recent years, Coach Jack Barnaby of the Varsity tennis team must field a completely new team as his top eight ranking players face a pickup aggregation of graduates in an informal initial match of the season this afternoon at Divinity Field...
Dinosaurs and Sound Tracks. Conductor Stokowski went to work in Philadelphia's mellow and acoustically perfect old Academy of Music, recording his symphonic accompaniments on sound tracks. This time he worked, not with the Hollywood pickup band that had recorded...