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...Orleans (Jo Stafford & Frankie Laine; Columbia LP). Two favorite singers blend their talents for a reminiscence of New Orleans. The Stafford-Laine city is a place of chimney sweeps (Raminay!), gastronomy (Jambalaya), and nostalgia (Way Down Yonder in New Orleans, etc.). Some of the backgrounds give a jazzlike lift to the proceedings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Oct. 12, 1953 | 10/12/1953 | See Source »

...Raminay! (Jo Stafford; Columbia) was a New Orleans chimney sweeps' cry. Judging from this song, neither the tunesmith (Sammy Fain) nor pseudo Blues Singer Stafford ever got within good hearing distance of the South's "Cradle of Jazz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Apr. 28, 1952 | 4/28/1952 | See Source »

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