Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Concerto in F Gershwin 2. (a) Swanee Do It Again (Sam Delilah) Lady Be Good (b)Mine Strike Up The Band Gershwin 3.(a) Hills of Home Oscar Fox (b) Home On The Range 4. Rhapsody in Blue Gershwin 5. An American in Paris Gershwin 7. "I Got Rhythm," Variations...
...hotcha, how ya doin, hey hey," that the college boys want from the dance orchestra today. Rhythm, rhythm, rhythm, and more rhythm that is the spirit of the musical age. The day of the "Peanut Vender," and "Yes, We Have No Bananas," is over. 'The Big Bad Wolf," "Mine," and "Heat Wave" -- they're the kind of songs people like now. Cab Calloway and Duke Ellington have ushered in a new era of popular music...
...There is really no reason why dances which are reeking with rhythm can't be aesthetic. Take the "400" -- there's a dance with any number of graceful variations, and at the same time it is bubbling over with rhythm. You know, I never could figure out why they called it the "400" till I tried to learn it. Then I decided it was because there were 400 different steps to it. The Rhumba -- that's really a hot dance, too, and the NRA, a waltz named after the Recovery Act is another new step that's pretty sweet. Thank...
...probably the world's best paid male singer ($275,000 a year). For Going Hollywood he got $75,000. He was born in Tacoma, Wash, in 1904. studied law at Gonzaga University, failed to take his bar examination, became a "hot" singer with Paul Whiteman's Rhythm Boys. When William Paley of Columbia Broad casting System heard a Crosby phono graph record, Bing was hired to sing on the radio for Cremo cigars, imitating Rudy Vallee's low register quavers. Now almost as popular as Vallee in the U. S. and Eng land, Crosby is much more...
...Paris after the Armistice, stuck it out for five years. In Paris he knew "everybody," contributed to such magazines as Broom, transition, Gargoyle, wrote a Dada novel, The Eater of Darkness. Friend of Gertrude Stein's (who described him as "the one young man who has an individual rhythm, his words made a sound to the eyes, most people's do not") he introduced Ernest Hemingway to her. Back in the U. S., he wrote for the New Yorker, until last year was its book reviewer. Meantime he had married Sculptress Elsa Kirpal, written a best-seller...