Word: tooters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This trumpet-tooter is Romy Gosz (pronounced gauze), self-styled "Polka King." He is pictured serenading three newly married couples at a Bluestone Park, Wis. dance last week as 1,357 polka-addicts look on. The week was nothing special for brash, 36-year-old Romy Gosz, who has made some 35 records for Columbia and Decca, and turned down various offers from bigtime bands. He prefers to stick with his own six-piece group ("five men and one musician") and his regular circuit of small Wisconsin towns. Six nights a week he plays hot, fast and loud for dances...
Betty Grable, seven-week bride of Trumpet-Tooter Harry James, announced she would retire for a while because she is going to have a baby next spring...
Died. Bernard ("Bunny") Berigan, 33, veteran trumpet virtuoso, topnotch tooter of the jazz and swing eras; of an intestinal ailment aggravated by trumpeting; in Manhattan. He began as a boy musician, appeared with name bands when he was 18, soloed with Paul Whiteman, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, organized his own band...
Other instruments included a saxophone whose tooter was staging a sit-down strike most of the afternoon, a jazz whistle, and other unidentified instruments...
...tooter who tooted the finte...