Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Donahue in person and his 14-piece Rainbow Room Orchestra will be the feature of the annual Freshman Jubilee on Friday, May 28. With three vocalists to lend the extra touch. Al will swing from 10 to 3 o'clock for the Class...
Hudson Delange will provide the swing at the Spring Dance at Winthrop House on Thursday, May 20. The affair will be strictly limited to 50 couples, with prices set at $3 per couple and $1.50 stag. On the dance committee are McRae H. Cobb '39, chairman, Eric T. Clarke '38, John M. Cunningham '38, and Theodore P. Robie...
Newest name and newest musical material on the Master list were those of Raymond Scott. This conscientious and well-schooled pianist-composer, heretofore unrecorded, began appearing on Columbia Broadcasting System's Saturday Night Swing sessions last January. Not swing musicians at all, since they are not free to improvise, the Scott Quintet does play in fox-trot tempo. What makes their music remarkable is that they play Scott's unconventional compositions, and play them with a finesse, variation and volume expected only of a 20-piece band. At present sold out is the one Scott record...
Johnny Long, protege of Hal Kemp, and his orchestra will play Kemp's own arrangements in the characteristic Kemp manner. The music of the Harringtons, featuring the distinctive swing style of Goodman arrangements and the charming voice of lovely 19-year-old Ruth Bates will offer a pleasing contrast...
Satisfied by a broiled lobster and steak dinner, Adams House revelers next Friday night will dance until two o'clock to the sophisticated swing music of Art Shaw and his Brunswick recording orchestra. Lovely and vivacious Dorothy Howe, at present under contract to M.G.M. in Hollywood will entertain guests with her singing, while Art Shaw himself will summon sweet and hot strains from his clarinet...