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Word: schnickel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1937-1937
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...washboard, and Nels Laakso. who triple-tongued and hit easy high C's on the cornet, but also did not disdain making noise simply by sucking the mouthpiece. For the back row Freddie Fisher got Pianist-Arranger Paul Cooper, Drummer Kenneth Trisko, Bull Fiddler Charles Koenig. The Schnickel-fritz Band did not cause much stir in Winona until a Decca representative named Elvin T. Christman heard the boys last January. He took them to Chicago to make their first four recordings, became their manager and sold them to the St. Paul tavern for $155 a week (union scale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Schnickelfritz | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

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