Word: swells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days before the opening of the Republican National Convention, Wendell Willkie, formerly of Elwood, Ind., blew into Philadelphia. He announced to newsmen: "My campaign headquarters are in my hat. Be sure to put it down that I'm having a swell time." Talking all the way, followed by a curious crowd, he strode down Broad St. until he reached convention headquarters at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. There, in the lobby, the upstart Presidential candidate was almost mobbed...
Having been a faithful reader of your swell magazine since its inception, it pains me no little to have to make my first complaint. In past years my cover-to-cover reading of TIME has given me a decided advantage over other, less enlightened parlor tacticians and politicians...
...Come Home" is better rendered by the O'Neil Spencer Quartet than by Ella Fitzgerald; both Deccan... Fats Waller is still very funny, "Square From Delaware" being a good example... Even better though is the living Bing Crosby and Jobnny Morcer do on "Mr. Meadowlark" two swell showmen... "Bye Bye Blues" by Seger Ellis ain't nothing much other way... "Tired Socks". by Johnny Hodges sounds as if the Ellington combo were a little weary when it made this...
...certainly hope that this won't be Kosty's last recording session. He has a marvelous orchestra (even in these records, the strings are something to write home about), swell ideas, and a free hand. It's to be hoped that he will make better selections and play them in his usual manner the next time he records...
...Forever Blowing Bubbles" by the same group of swing stars that Freddle Rich used for a previous date has Benny Carter trumpet and arrangements worth catching . . . "More Than You Know" by the Carter band itself is swell, as is the reverse "Shuffiebug Shuffle." Why this fine band isn't given more work is more than this writer can figure out . . . Buster Balley's "Chained To A Dream," recorded when the John Kirby band was still at the Onyx Club, has a few too many pretty trills for me, although it does show off the amazingly pure symphonic tone that Buster...