Word: styles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main objection to this band is that it plays a stereotyped style of music, very often not original. By clever buildup and publicity the public has been led to believe that this is the real thing in swing. Shallow stuff like this will lead the listening audience to become very tired of something they have been told was swing, and therefore to condemn it. "Swing is a verb, not a noun." You can play things in swing, but there is no such thing as a swing tune. Without good, sincere swing men in the band, unhampered by stiff, copied arrangements...
Misfortune overtook Jim Curwen in the 100 free-style. Coming into his turn at the halfway mark, he spun without touching the wall and had to return to make contact, losing two body lengths in the process. He turned on the heat for his final fifty but his qualifying time of 55.4 was too slow to place him in the finals. Yale Captain Johnny Good took the final in the fine time of 52.7, eclipsing the meet record of 53 flat set by Charlie Hutter last year, and thus ending his career in Payne Whitney Pool with his best time...
...unofficial world's record for the 12 laps. Al Van de Weghe, Dick Hough, and Hank Van Oss turned in the unbelievable time of 2:51.9. It is calculated that Van de Weghe did his 100 in 59.2, Hough the breastroke leg in 59.3, and Van Oss the free-style century in 53.4 to hang up a record that is likely to stand for many years...
...order of events: today--trials in four events in the afternoon and finals in the 300 individual medley, 440 free-style, 50 free-style, and one-meter dive in the evening; tomorrow--four trials in the afternoon and finals in the 300 medley (teams), 220 free-style, three-meter dive, 100 free-style, 150 backstroke, 220 breastroke, 400 Freshman relay, and 400 Varsity relay in the evening
...sense of almost overwhelming power about the band, due to its great rhythm section and general ability to relax, that creates immense swing without being noisy. This is typical of what is known as Kansas City swing (Andy Kirk and Jimmy Lunceford are bands of the same style); whenever you hear a band playing with that feeling of being just behind the beat, but not worrying too much about catching up, and brass with great solidity but not noise, you have Kansas City swing and music worth listening to. Goodman tried to build a white band that could play this...