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...country that play really danceable, tasteful sweet music. His "Dream of You" was voted outstanding dance record of the year in 1938 by one of the largest swing clubs in the country. His "Remember When," an old Victor recording, makes "Gloomy Sunday" seem something like a nursery rhyme. And on all of his records, saxmen Willie Smith and Joe Thomas, brass men Oliver, Webster, and Young, and the rhythm section provide good solos. Incidentally, if you think Harry James plays high trumpet, listen to Mr. Webster; he's the highest in the business...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swing | 5/19/1939 | See Source »

Taking Lead Belly north with him to Manhattan, Folklorist Lomax gave him a first shove up the ladder by presenting him in a concert before radio scouts, theatrical agents and pressmen. Lead Belly prospered, bought himself a new guitar, drawled his rhyme-sprouting improvisations in concert halls and over the air. In 1935 he sent for his best girl, swarthy Martha Promise, a Shreveport, La. laundress, and married her in one of the "shoutin'est" suburban weddings Manhattan's Negro colony had ever seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lead Belly | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...fortune of Poland's Gdynia to be pronounced Ga-din-ya, almost to rhyme with Abyssinia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 17, 1939 | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

Your choice of a word to rhyme with "Dies" appears to me a little awkward. May I suggest "Lies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 20, 1939 | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...TIME never tried to rhyme Dies with "geese." Nor with "mice." Dies rhymes with "spies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 6, 1939 | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

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