Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nightclubs in gold-braided black charro (cowboy) costumes. They have since broadcast for NBC, played at Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall, are now in Argentina. To delicate touching of the guitar and impeccable rhythm they add three fine voices in almost tangent harmony. When they are sweet they are very, very sweet, as in the sad, melodic Hace Un Ano (A Year Ago), Las Mananitas (Mornings), Adids Mariquita Linda (Goodby, Beautiful Mariquita). Their liveliest number is a ranch song, El Toro, full of shouting, whistling, guitar-beating and mooing. They are Decca artists and they do not appear...
THEY WENT ON TOGETHER-Robert Nathan-Knopf ($2). Through an internationalized and thereby rather vague countryside, a widow, her son, her daughter and an orphan girl flee before an invading army. Robert Nathan's sour-sweet poetic tone, his exquisite sense of timing. are as usual; as usual, too, there is the highly specialized sentimentality which makes some of Nathan's readers dubious, others devoted...
...Buster Bailey, who looks half of his 39 years. The band-filled out by Pianist Billy Kyle, Drummer O'Neil Spencer, Alto Saxophonist Russell Procope (rhymes with "no soap")-has been unchanged for nearly three years, a phenomenon in the trade. But Kirby was lately separated from the sweet singer he discovered and married, Maxine Sullivan...
Baron Hugo's band will fill the air with sweet, and Chloe Merimee, the noted Croole mystic astrologer, has been persuaded to abandon her retreat in the heart of old New Orleans to lend atmosphere to the proceedings...
...Adams House on the 19th. Despite the fact that having the country's number one jump band for a House dance is something in the nature of a revolutionary move, I'd like to point out that fact that the Count, surprisingly enough, plays as tasteful a brand of sweet music as you could hear anywhere. If you'll listen to records like If I Could Be With You or Our Love Was Meant To Be, you'll hear popular ballads played the right way--completely devoid of the corny ornaments that are identified with too many dance bands today...