Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high and learned salute to her talent came when she was only 15. One morning at 3 she was jamming with McKinney's Cotton Pickers at Harlem's Rhythm Club. The great Louis Armstrong entered the room and paused to listen to her. Mary Lou shyly tells what presently happened: "Louis picked me up and kissed...
...have to take Tommy Dorsey if they want a real trombone player. Heck, no, we've got the ace right here in our own ball park. And what about Merv Lysing on the sax? Minnesota sure lost a good bet when he went to Harvard here. And the rhythm section only two pieces, but man, they are pulenty sufficient for anybody's dance floor. You really ought to drop around and hear that guy Gelnett from Company B play that guilar. Doggon'--when he teams up with "Keys" Davis of Co. C, why the outfit is really complete...
...original enough to get them a job with Paul Whiteman, but seemed to burden many audiences. The Manhattan reception of their Red Hot Henry Brown prompted them to rename the song Lukewarm Henry Brown. It was not until Paul Whiteman put Harry Barris into the act that the Rhythm Boys really got to town...
...such a cocky little entertainer that the partners nicknamed him "Mr. Show Business." He worked up a fast routine with himself and Rinker at baby pianos, Crosby at his baby cymbal, rapid patter, breaks, and percussive slamming of the piano top by Barris himself. He wrote Mississippi Mud. The Rhythm Boys' record of it, with Crosby's doleful passage about the melting away of his sugar who was left standing in the rain, sold over 300,000 within three months...
Rinker went on to become a top radio producer of the William Esty advertising agency. Barris sang in Pacific Coast joints and regularly played small parts in his friend Crosby's motion pictures. Mississippi Mud went out of general public hearing. But when the Rhythm Boys got together to rehearse last week's broadcast, they did not need to sing the number twice-after more than a decade, they knew it the first time, word for word...