Word: swing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Swing situation around Beantown gets a real dose of aspirin as three topnotch bands pull into town today. Jimmy Dorsey, Les Brown, and Sonny Burke attract in the order named, the last two being here for several weeks, Jimmy doing a series of one-nighters starting tonight at Roseland State and ending up next Friday at the MIT Sophomore Prom...
...with lots of the name bands around, including his brother Tommy, Jimmy managed to gather some thousands of dance fans around for a new house record. Reason for this sort of thing is very simple: Jimmy has one of the very few bands that play good dance music, good swing, have good soloists, a colorful style, a leader that gets along with his band and the crowd, and two of the best vocalists in the business...
...always plays his "commercial" tunes softly, easily, and with good dance tempo. As far as the swing stuff goes, things like "Parade of the Milk Bottle Caps," "Serenade to Nobody in Particular," and "Hollywood Pastime" are recognized in the trade as a style of program music that Jimmy alone...
...Brown and Sonny Burke, the former playing at the Raymor Ballroom and the latter at the Atlantic Beach in Revere are both good bands worth spending an evening listening to. Since he disbanded his Duke University band, Brown has gone in for a sort of pleasantly arranged sweet-swing that's quite good. For example, his theme, "Shang-ri-La," is something worth hearing...
...rhythm, we got swing...