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Under the Chairmanship of Stephen W. Gifford, 3rd '44 the committee has hired Peter Cutler and his orchestra to provide the music. Cutler, who is, at present, playing at a Boston nightspot, has Dot Carroll as his vocalist...
Product of Broadway Tunesmith Sunny Skylar (real name Selig Shaftel), vocalist with Vincent Lopez' band, Move It Over at first did not impress Boss Lopez. When Skylar prevailed upon him to play it once as an experiment at Manhattan's Taft Grill, the audience seemed to agree with the bandleader. But later he dug it out again for a program at Camp Upton, L.I., and the doughboys...
Contented by all this is a 5 ft. 4 in., 291 Ib. Negro vocalist named Jimmy Rushing, who last week was shouting Mister Five By Five with Count Basic's band at Harlem's Apollo Theater. Jimmy Rushing knew who the U.S. public was singing about. It was singing about Jimmy Rushing...
...Boogie (Freddie Slack and his Orchestra; Capitol). Blues prairily twanged by Vocalist Ella May Morse...
When competent musicians are fired for playing two sour notes, there is no decent reason why a female vocalist should get by with singing like a crow. There are plenty of other reasons, but they count for little on a record. Every musician in the late Glenn Miller's band was expert, yet the firing rate was tremendous. Marion Hutton couldn't hit a note with a sledge-hammer, yet she sang with Miller for over four years. Few will deny that Marion was a highly desirable little morsel. She had, moreover, a prodigious personality that carried her over long...