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...with requests for Mule Train; his listeners could not seem to hear it often enough. Early one morning last week, Cummings struck back: he began playing, one after the other, recordings of Mule Train as sung by Frankie Laine, Bing Crosby, Gordon MacRae, the Syncopators, Buzz Butler, Arthur Smith, Vaughn Monroe and Tennessee Ernie. Before long, the unrelieved barrage of whipcracks and clippity-clops jammed WWDC's switchboard with phone calls from desperate night owls crying "Uncle...
...Pennsylvania-bred Trumpeter Vaughn Monroe, fronting for a five-piece Boston society combo, was about as low on the bandleaders' register as a man could get. Now & then he would try to jolt his cocktail-and coming-out party patrons from their fox trot and rumba rut by booming Ave Maria or Glory Road in the aggressive baritone he was training for opera in his spare time. But mostly he gave them "what was called for-a hundred and twenty-eight beats to the minute-the debutante stuff and the businessman's bounce...
...fast clippity-clop rhythm (actually a good deal faster than a burro's), it sounded like a poor man's Riders in the Sky. And with the U.S. hungry for what the trade calls "oat" or "popcorn" songs, Lange was right about the hot hit. After Vaughn Monroe, Frankie Laine, Bing Crosby, et. al. had taken a ride on it, Mule Train last week was clippity-clopping out of every jukebox and radio right across the nation...
...Mule Train was slightly embarrassing to Republic Pictures, which had bought it for a spot in a new movie, Singing Guns. With Mule Train record sales expected to pass the two-million mark, Republic could only hope that its song would not be worn out before Singing Guns (starring Vaughn Monroe) comes along next month...
Although the acting is in every respect excellent, the final praise for the success of "Scott of the Antarctic" must go to the cameramen, director, and to Vaughn Williams, who composed the score. Williams' music is not subtle; but it reflects magnificently the changing moods of the Antarctic, and with low, vibrant rhythms the slowing heartbeats of Scott...