Word: ve
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undoubtedly what has given Templeton much of his musical sense of humor. Listen to the album of records which Gramaphone Shop of New York has done (Brigg's and McKenna's have them) and not only is there some excellent piano, but some of the wildest satire you've ever heard. The man deserves great credit, not only for having overcome a handicap, but for being an accomplished piano player (his latest trick being to play concertos after having heard them once), and for having carried on with a musical tongue in the check where Gilbert and Sullivan left...
When Miss Lillie was asked to compare English with American sense of humor, she said of the English, "What sense of humor? But they really aren't an had as all that; they've just been brought up wrong. I was in a revue over there this summer, a hodge podge of everything I've done here for the past five years, but the audience just couldn't see eye to eye with an American one is picking their laughs...
...think that Louis' playing is something he just happened to pick up on trumpet, listen to some of his vocals--things like "Nobody Knows De Trouble I've Seen" (Decca)--and despite the complete absence of anything even resembling the usual human singing voice, you'll get an idea of simplicity and sincere, deep emotion that'll make the Clinton-Shaw-Dorsey school of riffing look extremely sick...
Last year in Manhattan a little old man of 77 gave an interview: "The best bank in the world, if you put the right things in it, is the bank of memories. . . . I've...
...ve trod the maze of error round, Long wandering in the winding glade; And now the torch of truth is found, It only shows us where we strayed...