Word: scat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that time, no one except "Mike Scat" could get the garbage-collecting contract. The law provides that a bidder for the contract must own a garbage dump; an incinerator would not do. Mike owns several dumps along New Jersey's Hackensack River, whence he sells his swill by the cubic yard to pig farmers...
...Carter cultivates Honeysuckle Rose for elegant Lena Home. Frank Morgan pretends to be a doctor, gets slap-happy in his examination of Ann Sothern, Lucille Ball and Marsha Hunt, who want to be WAVES. Red Skelton is a soda jerker with an allergy for ice cream. Judy Garland makes scat-singing like "Tchai-tchai-tchaikovsky" bearable in Let There Be Music. Senor Iturbi, forced by the curious exigencies of the screen to prove that he is almost anything else but a ranking pianist, trots out some fair boogie-woogie, takes care to play nothing worth hearing...
...horrible things I've ever seen." Said Bishop James Cannon Jr. in the Richmond Times-Dispatch: "The woman's back and hips are poorly portrayed." Said Artist Binford: "When and how did this bishop become an authority on the 'backs and hips' of nude women? Scat, Bishop! Get off my scaffold. I am not trying to swarm your pulpit." Result: his mural is still in the sketch stage...
...while it may not be as well integrated as Kirk's auld's tenor sax solos have been good listening and should make up most of the difference. It played here some weeks ago, however, and I heard it kindly spoken of at the time. Then there is Johnnie "Scat" Davis at Lowell House, who suffers, at least in this column, from competition with Kirk the same night. You, too have probably sat through a collegiate movie in which his obstreperous jive has been prominently featured. His orchestra seems to be just a backdrop for his antics, which have been...
...pyrotechnics, a vocal by Jimmy Rushing, and an Earl Warren alto chorus backed by clean muted brass. Reverse, The Apple Jump, is graced by a very delicate Basic piano solo (OKEH) ... Best Five O'clock Whistle of the week is by Will Bradley (COLUMBIA). Ray McKinley and Doc Goldberg scat their way through the novelty vocal, and Bradley takes a swell trombone ride with a tom-tom backing... Johnny Hodges steals the show on Duke Ellington's Warm Valley (VICTOR), a slow, dreamy tune, arrangement of which is remarkably unpretentious. Reverse, The Flaming Sword, says "fox-trot" on the label...