Word: rockin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like all successes, Rock n Roll, has had imitations. Wishing to capitalize on its great success, certain musicians have exploited Rock n roll to promote new types of music. so the first popular Cha-Cha was titled Rockin; the Cha-Cha. for the future, however, Rock n Roll devotees have no qualms. The tourists who spread Rock n Roll through France this summer, have, on returning, given local Rock n roll a French touch with new songs like Ay La Bah. With the influx of such new ideas, says Boston disc jockey Stan Richards, "Rock n Roll...
Louis Armstrong Sings the Blues (Victor LP). The great jazzman, his trumpet, and the voice that sounds like gravel tossed into a malted machine. There are a dozen tunes (originally recorded from 1933 to 1947), including Basin Street Blues, St. Louis Blues and Rockin' Chair, an exemplary duet with oldtime Trombonist Jack Teagarden. Other supporters: Pianists Teddy Wilson and Johnny Guarnieri, Trombonist Kid Ory, Trumpeter Bobby Hackett, Drummer Cozy Cole...
...each week, by dictating to his wife, John Kidder does a column ("Sittin' and Rockin' ") for the Ronan Pioneer (circ. 1,425). This month, appealing for contributions to the March of Dimes, Columnist Kidder recalled his doctor's reassuring words early in his own illness: "Don't worry about the hospital expense, John-the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis will take care of it." It has. So far, in the care of John Kidder, the foundation and its chapters have expended at least 140,000 dimes...
...roly-poly singer who died last December. Mildred Bailey (Decca, 2 sides LP) includes eight of her best-known songs, if not the best versions of all of them. Even so, Lover, Come Back to Me, More than You Know, and the song Hoagy Carmichael wrote for her, Rockin' Chair, are still outstanding. Recording: good...
...Armstrong, who ushered at meetings, New Hampshire's Senator Tobey ("the warmest-hearted friend I had"), and Senator Hoey and the rest of the representatives from Billy's home state of North Carolina. Vice President Alben Barkley told Billy admiringly: "You're certainly rockin' the old Capitol...