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Opening the festivities of a Commencement shortened by war conditions, Shep Fields will feature his orchestra and new music at the annual Senior Spread Monday, June 8, it was announced by Edward I. Rothschild '42, chairman of the Spread Committee...
...Detroit last week, at which Barry Wood sang Any Bonds Today? The dance not only plugged defense but was a feature of the RCA-Victor Dance Caravan, touring the Midwest in a ten-car special train. In four days, 23,000 youngsters jitterbugged to music by Tommy Dorsey and Shep Fields, gawked at the $100,000 props (palm trees, waterfall, blue silk ceiling) taken from the disastrous Dance Carnival opened last summer by Monte Proser in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden (TIME, June...
...127th birthday, a dance program was dedicated to the late Adolphe (Antoine Joseph) Sax, inventor of the saxophone and thereby the unwitting father of the modern dance band. Dedicator was Bandleader Shep Fields, who lately gave up his trade-mark "Rippling Rhythm," threw out his brass, concentrated on nine saxophones...
...Well, Charlie," he said (he calls me Charlie), "Which would you rather hear, Tommy Dorsey or Shep Fields and his rippling rhythm...
...from Walt Disney's Pinocchio by a month, on Broadway Melody of 1940 by six weeks. During his days with Victor he claims to have skyrocketed most of the big name bands to the top, including such best-sellers as Eddy Duchin, Fats Waller, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Shep Fields, Larry Clinton, Artie Shaw, Glenn Miller. Says he: "I told them how to develop an individual style. A band must have a recognizable style so that when kids start to play a record, they can listen for a minute and then say 'Why, that's Benny Goodman...