Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there be serious study and discipline when five minutes before the end of the period, a jazz tune or a Christmas carol comes over .the loudspeaker to disturb the lesson; that is the signal for everyone to talk.. . . Bells ring, and 1,200 students rush shrieking into the halls. A clock and bells are the dictators of the schools...
...called History of Jazz. Disc jockeys picked Julia's record out of the album and played it more than the others, so Capitol lured Julia to Hollywood to record twelve more sides. She took her drummer, Baby Lovett, along, and on the way out they wrote a suggestive tune called Gotta Gimme Watcha Got, which sold out immediately. Some jazz critics boldly compared 44-year-old Julia Lee with the greatest blues shouter of them all, the late Bessie Smith...
Wherever he alights on his speaking tour around the country, a long red carpet is rolled out for him. When he finishes, the audience sings the new national anthem Indonesia Raja. The tune is almost a direct steal from Boola, Boola; the refrain starts...
Between the acts, there was a Battle of Bands-two orchestras playing the same tune-one hot, one sweet. The orchestra's idea of le jazz hot was still in the wah-wah, funny-hat stage of the U.S. display bands of 1930. Maestros Alex Combelle and Andrea Leca were things of beauty in black ties and velvet jackets, but Combelle's gum-chewing guitarist wore a sweater with wide green and yellow horizontal stripes...
...gladhander who seeks out local disc jockeys when he hits a new town, is up early in the morning to be accommodating to autograph seekers. Said he: "We can't lay any more eggs. Now we play a pulsating melodic throb. People's ears today are in tune to great harmonic things. Our music has to be built into institutional proportions. The band has to become a household word...