Word: recording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition to writing such swing classics as "Honeysuckle Rose" and "Ain't Misbehavin'," Fats makes a specialty of taking hopelessly syrupy tunes that no other swing band would touch, and converting them into classics that keep the record collectors scrambling. Historic examples of this trait are "Sweet and Low" and "West Wind," with lyrics as only Fats can do them...
...jazz program music yet to be issued appeared a short time ago in the discs of Irving Berlin by Paul Whiteman. Whiteman has utilized to the highest extent his various instrumental ensembles, extremely capable vocal quartet, the Modernnaires, and singer Joan Edwards. Space won't permit discussion of each record, but the two albums, presenting some of the really great tunes of jazz ("Blue Skies," "Remember," etc.) are highly recommended...
...Fight for Peace (Warwick). When first issued for a short run in 1938, this brutal, literal, newsrealistic record of the war-torn peacetime between World Wars I and II looked like 63 minutes of unnecessary nightmare. Scripter Hendrik Willem van Loon, having cleverly piled up the horrors of four revolutions and four wars, rammed home his main point -that war is beastly-with more armless, legless, headless corpses than had ever appeared on a screen before. The mechanical, impersonal accuracy of lens and film was sickening. Though critics praised the picture, audiences stayed away. But for fascinated fans...
...past ten years Earl Mosley has also been City Manager (salary for all his jobs: $7,500 a year) and he knew what he was talking about. Colorado Springs beamed as he read the record...
...Bakersfield, Calif., Jacqueline Cochran, wife of Tycoon Floyd Bostwick Odium (Atlas Corp.), broke her own record for the loo-kilometer airplane course, set a new mark of 286,418 m. p. h. In Manhattan, Mrs. Hortense McQuarrie Odium, ex-wife of Tycoon Odium, celebrated her fifth year as smart president of smart Bonwit Teller's store...