Word: soloings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a Saturday-night singer decides which part he wants to sing-First Tenor, Second Tenor, First Bass, Second Bass-he plays a 75? disc. On one side his part in Sweet Adeline, Let Me Call You Sweetheart and In the Evening by the Moonlight is sung solo; on the other the songs are let loose by a professional quartet, in which the amateur joins...
...mouth organ. This harmonica is tootled with utmost purity by Larry Adler, at 27 the world's greatest harmonicist. Soon The Bronx Symphony Orchestra, 70-piece group which has been rehearsing for months, will play with Larry Adler as harmonica artist. He will blow, note for note, the solo part of a classic concerto originally written for the violin, Vivaldi's A Minor. For Virtuoso Adler, such symphonic antics are nothing new. Nor do most people consider them reprehensible...
...somewhat below par Count has more punch than most swing bands now making the rounds. The boys didn't play too many popular melodies of the day, as there was an ugly rumor that they were going to do. As usual, most of the arrangements featured a raft of solos, with Buck Clayton and Don Byas, the new tenor sax artist, particularly outstanding. The rhythm section suffered from the absence of Joe Jones from the tympani, which probably disconcerted the boys a bit . . . Decca waited until Muggsy Spanier had left the Bob Crosby band before issuing the first good record...
...McCartney Alice Lynch, WheatonJ. Robert Moskin Hepzibah McWeebles, Dunkling-on-CharlesWilliam J. Moss Natalie Gale, BeaverWilliam L. Nutting Polly Palmer, WheatonWilliam C. Palson Priscilla Tapley, SmithWillard Platt Patricia Elliot, WellesleyBroaddus Robinson Patricia Drew, BeaverO. Glenn Saxon, Jr. Bobsie Deming, The Day SchoolErwin H. Schell Alice Minot, CambridgeRichard D. Solo Helen Salters, BrooklineEdward B. Stevens Andy Johnson, Miss Wheeler'sPeter Gram Swing Patricia Lee, SmithFenton Taylor, Jr. Eleanor Root, New YorkAndrew W. Welch, Jr. Barbara Kelly, EmmanuelWELD HALLHenry Applebach Louise StuartElibu H. Berman Muriel Goldman, Hartford, Conn.Frederic H. Bird Ann Tyrrell, Colby Junior CollegeJerry M. Brown Vurginia Buchser, Fort Monroe, Va.Richard...
...Italian Army last week scored a victory over the German Army-as might be expected, in a race. The goal was Corfu, the little Greek island at the mouth of the Adriatic, which, in their solo campaign, the Italians had pounded with bombs and been unable to take...