Word: tuneful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sided scores featured the opening round of the Eastern polo Intercollegiates, as the favorites won in every match. At the same time the Crimson team, which drew a bye in the first round, succumbed by a score of 10 to 6 in a tune-up match with the Ridgewood team of Essex Troop at Newark...
...swing. Shallow stuff like this will lead the listening audience to become very tired of something they have been told was swing, and therefore to condemn it. "Swing is a verb, not a noun." You can play things in swing, but there is no such thing as a swing tune. Without good, sincere swing men in the band, unhampered by stiff, copied arrangements, swing is an impossibility. And what Mr. Clinton doesn't copy, nobody else would play. By the way, take a look at Jelly Roll Morton's record of "Kansas City Stomp" and "Georgia Stomp" if you wish...
...Basie's and no white man could ever sing the blues like "Rush" (Jim Rushing) can. Ella Fitzgerald sings a clever half-time chorus on Chick Webb's "Undecided" (Decca) ... Good sweet playing by the band and Bob Eberle's singing make Jimmy Dorsey's dise of his own tune "It's Anybody's Moon," successful ... Both "Mary's Idea" by Andy Kirk and "Shorty George" by Count Basie are examples of solid Kansas City swing...
Coach was Fesler's hoopmen were frankly disappointing last night at they absorbed another walloping-this time it was at the hands of the Quakers of Pennsylvania, and the tune...
...when he had finally learned his way, he settled down happily in the catacombs of Lowell and proceeded to tune the bells of the Zvon before they were installed in the tower. He tapped and tinkered all day and far, far into the night. After a week or so, however, Saradjeff found that Lowell men had a strange habit of sleeping at night and they didn't seem to appreciate his bell-tapping lullaby. This opposition to his work naturally disturbed his sensitive personality...