Word: venuti
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radio show in Dallas. At 14, she had a band of her own called the "Rhythmaticians." At 15, she was singing with Swing Fiddler Joe Venuti's band, wandering across the U.S. on deadly one-night stands. Then Jazzman Charlie Barnet put her up against his nine brasses. "I pay for 'em," Charlie used to roar, "and I want to hear 'em." After two years of shouting, Kay Starr's voice broke down...
Boston belles will parade before the watery eyes of judges Vaughn Monroe, a prominent local entrepreneur, and a College representative, Harris or Venuti by name, in a fashion show at the Copley Plaza this noon...
Harris, or Venuti as the case may be, was caught last night reviewing his judicial opinion in the deserted confines of Memorial Hall. "You might compare my idea of a woman to the pitcher in our national pastime," he crooned to his unseen audience...
...stories in Crosbyesque slang. One night Little Red Riding Hood finally gets "hep" that the wolf isn't grandma; the next night Goldilocks makes a "three-bowl parlay" on the bears' porridge. Every few months he asks over his old musician friends-Manny Klein, Lennie Hayton, Joe Venuti, and whoever happens to be in town-for a jam session in his large rumpus room. Summers he packs the family off to the ranch near...
Listening the other night to the Stradivarius Quartet, a small string combo which is definitely good listening. Violin Wolfe Wolfinsohn is strictly gate stuff--being the only man I have ever heard who can cut Joe Venuti in his better days. He told me after the concert that he had often listened to Joe and that he enjoyed him very much. I am sorry to say that I didn't like the way the Strad boys played the Haydn. They rushed it like Toscanini playing the blues and I expected. Uncle Joe Haydn to pop through the skylight...