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Word: spreadin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Everybody is out high-hattin', Spreadin 'rhythm around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Stompin' Smash | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

...most people, those are the lyrics of a 1935 Fats Waller song, Spreadin' Rhythm Around. But to audiences at Broadway's Longacre Theater, they are official marching orders, a direct command from the feet to the brain. Not since Fats was tapping the keys back in speakeasy days has old Manhattan had such a good high-hattin' time as it does in Ain 't Misbehavin', a musical collection of 30 songs Waller composed or helped to make famous. To put it mildly, Ain't Misbehavin ' is behaving wildly. Three days after it opened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Stompin' Smash | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

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