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...friend became more insistent. "Listen, Jack," he said, "the joint will really be rockin! It'll be crazy. Jacquet blows...
...there for two hours, rockin. As we were leaving, the dapper man with the horned-rim glassed waved goodbye. "You'll float all the way home," he said. HERBERT S. MEYERS
Died. Mildred Bailey (real name: Rinker), 48, blues-moaning jazz singer, whose trademark was Rockin' Chair; of a heart ailment; in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Half Coeur d'Alêne Indian, she got her start at 17, plugging tunes in a Seattle store for $10 a week, became a radio star with Paul Whiteman's orchestra (1929-34), made records, which have since become collector's items, with most of the leading jazzmen of her day (including ex-Husband Red Norvo...
Other oldtimers around town couldn't keep away. Benny Goodman, Eddie Condon ("What kind of a sophisticated place is this? I can't even send drinks to the bandstand") and even Red's exwife, Mildred (Rockin' Chair) Bailey, kept dropping in. To remind others where they first heard his name, Red Norvo kept salting his half-hour stands with such tunes as Strike Up the Band, Night and Day, Sweet Georgia Brown-songs he used to rap out on his "woodpile" (xylophone) with Paul Whiteman's band 20 years...
...nostalgic group of Hoosiers in Boston caught up with Indiana's favorite songster, clabber-voiced Composer Hoagy (Rockin' Chair) Carmichael, and presented him with a 150-year-old Salem rocking chair. Said Hoagy from a comfortable slouch: "A good rocking chair is like music, sort of has euphony. It takes no effort to make it rock...