Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...country's swing against "radicals." He stated that 2,000 private persons had offered $5,000 apiece to finance his committee's continuance. From their own mail, Representatives knew he was not boasting much...
...Louis Blues (Paramount) is memorable chiefly for keeping George Raft off the screen and putting Maxine Sullivan's swing rendition of Loch Lomond on it. Raft declined the leading role, that of a Mississippi showboat impresario, because he felt it did not do his talents justice. Paramount promptly suspended him from its pay roll. Miss Sullivan, 4-ft. n-in., gi-lb. Negro soprano, who in 1937 started a craze for gently swung folk tunes, made her Hollywood debut in Going Places last month. In St. Louis Blues, in addition to an excellent rendition of Loch Lomond, she touches...
...blind, but he had large, sensitive ears. Chicago listeners were amazed at his uncanny versatility. He could ripple through a Mozart concerto with thorough orthodoxy, and next minute go to town in a jammed-up version of The Music Goes 'Round and 'Round. Not only could he swing Bach, he could Bach swing. He could improvise in the style of any classical composer, aid get such a good likeness that most listeners were fooled...
...Swing music has been given official recognition with the addition of popular recordings to the Theatre Collection in Widener Library under the direction of Mrs. Lillian A. Hall, Custodian of the Theatre Collection...
Records show that the latest interest in swing music is in direct contrast to music policy in 1842 when John Knowles Paine first organized a music course despite the fears of the Corporation that even a choir would district students from religion...