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Word: tenore (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...record is the rhythm section, which is second only to the Count's. As a matter of fact, Basic plays piano here, and shares honors with Artic Bernstein (bass), Charley Christians (electric guitar) and Harry Jaeger (drums). Wholly Cats features the surprise of the year: Georgie Auld off tenor sax. Georgie used to be to the sax what Buddy Rich is to drums. Now he's playing swell horn, modelling his style on 'Coleman Hawkins', and you couldn't ask for a better master.... Dillagene, Woody Herman's new vocalist, does a nice job on Five O'clock Whistle, (DECCA...

Author: By Charles Miller, | Title: SWING | 12/7/1940 | See Source »

Died. Billy Jones, 51, tenor half of the Happiness Boys, first nationally known radio team, partner from 1920 until 1939 of the late Baritone Ernie Hare; of a heart attack, as he strolled along Broadway on his way to rehearse his Sunday program over station WMCA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 2, 1940 | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

...simple fooleries of The Bartered Bride, set to simple, polka-dotted tunes, showed off some notable young talent: Basso Luke Matz (music supervisor in the Unionville, Pa. public school), as a jovial village marriage broker; Soprano Frances Greer (Philadelphia church singer), as the unwilling betrothed of the village simpleton (Tenor John Toms, voice teacher); Tenor Edward Nyborg (Philadelphia tailor's helper), as the boy who finally gets the girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera in English | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

...Longy School Chamber Orchestra and Choral Group will give a concert in the Germanic Museum Tuesday at 8:15 o'clock with Helen Sanderson, soprano, Rulon Robison, tenor, and Gerard Haft, violoncello, featured...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Longy School Gives Concert | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

Actually, One Night in the Tropic?, was designed as a major film operetta. Jerome Kern, aided by Lyricists Dorothy Fields and Oscar Hammerstein II, wrote five not-so-melodious tunes for Allan Jones's piercing tenor. Short, jaunty, oldtime Musical Director A. Edward Sutherland conducted the actors through the story by the late Earl Derr Biggers. Top-flight Cinematographer Joseph Valentine ran the camera. Yet together, this combination of Hollywood's ablest backstage talent accomplished no more than a jumbled exaggeration of the Boy Meets Girl motif with scattered comic turns by Radio Zanies Abbott and Costello...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 25, 1940 | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

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