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...seems to remind them of lots of other things (including Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, Lazy River), or into Fare Thee Well, Annabelle, which begins with a polytonal fughetta and is interrupted by a hoarse dissonance that sends the whole band into a fit of laughter. The prom perennial, Stardust, is popular with Brubeck and Desmond because its stately harmonic progressions flow as smoothly as the Mississippi, allowing them freedom to improvise in their most carefree vein. Of course, they never play the tune any more, nor the original harmonies. All that remains of poor old Stardust is the memory...
Premiered by Ellington (Capitol, 2 EPs). Eight famous songs, including Stardust, Three Little Words, Stormy Weather, which first saw the light of night under the Duke's baton. Fine, swinging performances...
Moonlight Playing Time (Frankie Froba; Decca LP). Oldtime Jazz Pianist Froba has an easygoing keyboard approach. His selections-Moonglow, How High the Moon, Stardust on the Moon, Moonlight on the Ganges, Moonlight Saving Time, It's Only a Paper Moon, Moon Over Miami and Blue Moon-should just about exhaust the subject...
...they seldom take such a chance. Instinctively, they prefer the familiar and inexpensive 'to the unusual and experimental. Last week replacing Your Show of Shows with Saturday Night Revue, NBC stuck to the familiar variety format as a showcase for some likable new talent. Starring Composer Hoagy (Stardust) Carmichael and directed by Sid Miller (who often plays literate TV comedy with Donald O'Connor), the Revue introduced a Martha Raye-type comedienne named Helen Halpin, rubber-faced Comic Jackie Kannon ( I studied dramatics under Senator McCarthy"), and, best of the lot, George Gobel, who deadpanned a funny monologue...
Hoosier Tunesmith Hoagy (Stardust) Carmichael, getting set to replace NBC Comics Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca for the summer, beat the television critics to the punch with a quick self-appraisal of his vocal talents: "You can't take too much of my voice. I play my records three times and then I can't stand them. It sounds awful monotonous...