Word: swingster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sued for Divorce. Swingster Gene Krupa; by Ethel May Krupa, who charged that he beat her up; in Miami...
...Married. Swingster Benny Goodman, 32; and Alice Hammond Duckworth, 36, great-great-granddaughter of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, niece of ex-Ambassador to Spain Ogden Hammond; she for the second time; in Las Vegas, Nev. She divorced Londoner George Arthur Victor Duckworth in January...
...Iturbi, turbulent-tempered Spanish conductor-pianist, got on his high horse last week with one angry bound. Reason: he was slated to conduct a program (July 10) at Philadelphia's Robin Hood Dell, on which Swingster Benny Goodman was scheduled to play one of his specialties, the Mozart clarinet concerto. From California, Conductor Iturbi telephoned Philadelphia: "[Goodman] is a jazz-band leader. It would be beneath my dignity to conduct for him." (Iturbi has accepted dignified fees for appearing with Bing Crosby on the radio, playing piano accompaniment for Bob Burns' bazooka.) Drawled Benny Goodman: "Well...
When the networks had to drop ASCAP tunes and arrangements from the U. S. air, they ordered many a swingster to stifle his hot-licks for fear of violating an ASCAP copyright. That was hard on many a younger listener. Aside from hot record programs from independent stations, only reasonably warm music on the radio was the show called ASCAP on Parade, aired by an independent chain on Saturday night. Last week, officially because Producer Billy Rose was too busy with private matters to handle it, more probably because ASCAP was toying with compromise, ASCAP on Parade was withdrawn...
...accused of stealing the Rathbone style, tramp the edges off their heels in vain visits to song publishers. With this tissue-thin plot Director Victor Schertzinger has managed to string to gether 90 minutes of first-rate crooning by Crosby and Martin, lively trumpeting by famed one-armed Swingster Wingy Mannone, some casual, restful reading of Scenarist Dwight Taylor's smooth lines...