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Some of the Negro congregation began to murmur the words of the hymn the choir was singing, "How sweet it is to know Him, Jesus Christ divine." Slowly choir and congregation began to sway and clap and stomp to the rhythm. People in the audience jiggled and jounced up & down shouting "Oh Lord, tell a story!" A mother pushed her child from her lap, crying "Oh Jesus, I'll fly away...
Bushman. Marlin Perkins' collection at Lincoln Park is good, if not dazzling. Among its 2,800 specimens are several star performers. One of them is Heinie, a male chimp who does a terrifying stomp to get an audience's notice and then spits ponderously at the nearest face. Other headliners are Dillinger, an 18-year-old lion whose savagery has never been tempered, and Judy, a 39-year-old elephant, who loves cough drops...
...Orleans Jazz (Kid Ory and his Creole Jazz Band; Columbia, 8 sides). Strictly for New Orleans fans, this album includes barrelhouse (Bucket Got a Hole in It), stomp, blues and a shouting version of Joshua Fit de Battle of Jericho. Trombonist Ory sings two numbers in Creole French. The ensemble includes Barney Bigard on the clarinet. Performance: good...
Once again the police found themselves in the desirable position of having nothing to do other than stomp around to keep warm. The number of hot betting tips furnished from the rostrum undoubtedly made this work easy...
This week a minor recording outfit, West Coast Recordings, released four Lu Watters records, planned to turn out 32 more. They included classics like Canal Street Blues, Creole Belles and Chattanooga Stomp, and originals like Turk Murphy's Trombone Rag and Lu's Antigua Blues, named after the ship on which Lu did Navy duty. Watters' boys have an impressive library of 200 oldtime tunes-all "in their heads...