Word: sambaed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Political Swings. In Chicago, dancing teachers introduced the Dewey Dip, "a sedate jive with three samba steps dropping into a dip," and the Roosevelt Roger, a step with "lots of action, whirlabouts, and plenty of travel." Pitch Battle. In Philadelphia, the police broke up a fight between a man with a knife and a man swinging a guitar in his left hand, a mandolin in his right...
...Beat lacks the dignity of its chief rival, Metronome. It lacks the pure devotion to hot jazz of such earnest little sheets as The Jazz Record. But Down Beat is certainly the most faithful reflection of the whole noisy medley of U.S. dance music, from the blues to the samba, from the mechanical to the inspired. And Down Beat, with a wartime paid circulation of 87,000, is a highly successful ten-year...
...skidded down from their hilltops singing a brand-new crop of carnival songs and dances. Lacking jalopies to parade in, they hung three-deep to the sides of streetcars, beating out wild rhythms on their tambourines and shouting the new tunes that would soon pulsate in all the samba palaces of Brazil. Usually the streetcar motormen got the idea and joined in, clanging out the rhythm with their bells. One song caught on faster than all the rest and ended by sweeping Rio. Sample stanza...
...spotlight for most of the afternoon were Captain and Mrs. McIntosh, Lieutenant Commander and Mrs. Hesser and various other members of the School Faculty and their wives. The spotlight shifted to the student officers when the professional danceuse picked "Chick" Soloway, of the Junior Class, to demonstrate the samba...
Whether Chick knew how to do it all the time and just played dumb at the start, we will never know. But he certainly caught on fast and won the resulting competition. Anyone interested in samba lessons at reasonable rates should contact Mr. Soloway...