Word: victor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most of the country's better band leaders are going to end up behind the bars. It's been the custom for sometime to swipe ideas from everyone on standard tunes such as "Bugle Call Rag"...Artie Shaw has been sued for another $30,000, this time by former Victor record manager, Eli Oberstein. Oberstein claims that he had a contract for Shaw's services with his new U. S. Record Company, and that Shaw broke it. Shaw replies that "duress, fraud, and false intent" were employed in getting him to sign the contract...
...Victor announces that "in addition to his ability to play three-four tempos that American dance fans thoroughly enjoy, Wayne King's band is capable of real swing...
Early American Ballads (John Jacob Niles, tenor; Victor: 8 sides). A "hillbilly" who knows where his songs come from (he studied at the University of Lyons and at Oxford) croons The Gypsy Laddie and My Little Mohee, twanging a dulcimer the while...
Love Never Went to College (Hal Kemp; Victor). Bandleader Kemp's vocalists, "The Smoothies," earn their name on this glossiest version of Rodger & Hart's glossiest Too Many Girls tune...
Sing Something Simple (Maxine Sullivan; Victor). Of interest not only to popular musical antiquarians (it is from the 1930 Second Little Show) but because Miss Sullivan (Loch Lomond) now sings refined, like all the mediocre white singers before they began imitating...