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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arranger for Jimmy Lunceford, who claimed it came from his arrangement of Dear Old Southland, from Gene Krupa who said he made it up in one of his earlier Brunswick records, from Count Basic who has used the lick in numerous of his arrangements. Jerry Kreuger, a 52nd Street singer, said she has used the line "Don't get icky with the 1-2-3" in New York since last summer after hearing it in the Catskills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 15, 1939 | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...peers come to play with him in shifts on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Last week four more noble playmates with special talents were chosen to match Akihito's varying moods: Yasuo Nishi, 7, accomplished pilot of baby automobiles; Yoshitska Torio, 7, very good at drawing; Takatoshi Kinoshita, 6, a singer and athlete; and Tsuyo Mishima, 7, brilliant toy soldier tactician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Specialists | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...Hyatt Mayor, Associate Curator of Prints, and efficient Josephine Lansing Allen, an assistant curator of paintings, put it together with sparkling good sense and humor. For each picture they provided background information, illuminating quotations, graceful homilies. In their observations on portraits of the late John D. Rockefeller (by John Singer Sargent) and J. P. Morgan (by Carlos Baca-Flor), they achieved a tone of perfect respect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art Traps | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...jazz, Ella Fitzgerald really made a tremendous hit (she later said to me that she had more fun working the Smoker than anything she had done in a long while) by here very swell singing, and Hildegarde proved herself far more than just a good piano player and better singer by her showmanship in handling the crowd. Word has sneaked around that Jeff Fuller '38 has opened his own hot shop in New York City. Come, gentlemen, a little reciprocal trade between Harvard, what? Fuller knows his stuff about records, and from what I can hear about the trips...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 5/5/1939 | See Source »

From the world of sport Buddy Hassett, often called the best singer in the major leagues, and Victor Jones...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THOUSANDS THRONG SANDERS THEATRE AT ANNUAL SMOKER | 5/2/1939 | See Source »

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