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...brawl on May 23. This band is one of those rare groups which can play swing and sweet equally well. Besides, Bobby himself is one of the best white jazz trombonists in the game, and his technique on that instrument ranks with that of Jack Teagarden and Tommy Dorsey. Vocalist Dorothy Claire you've heard to good advantage with Glenn Miller. You'll see her to better advantage at the Jubilee...

Author: By Charles Miller, | Title: SWING | 4/25/1941 | See Source »

Dorothy Claire will round out Byrne's smoothly styled music as the band's featured vocalist. Even before the recent controversy between Byrnes' and Glenn Miller, who tried to sign Miss Claire while she was under contract to Byrnes, she was known to all musically minded America for her sweet singing and tantalizing personality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jubilee Committee Selects Bobby Byrne For '44 Affair | 4/23/1941 | See Source »

Feature of the program will be an interview with Betty Clair vocalist for Claude Thornhill and sister of Glen Miller's Dorothy Claire. This is the second dance that the Network has broadcast with its new transmission unit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bunnies' Dance Hits Ether | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

...time, cigar-smoking (box-a-day) McArthur studied orchestra scores, practiced waving a stick before a mirror. An ear-splitting singer, he made his wife, his onetime singing pupil Blanche Victoria Pope, his stand-in vocalist in his studies. Flagstad plugged him as a conductor (TIME, Feb. 5, 1940). The San Francisco and Chicago operas hired Conductor McArthur; last year the Met unbent and let him do a Tristan in a post-season visiting performance in Boston. But not until last week did the Met let him play in its own back yard. Critics gave Edwin McArthur top marks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: McArthur Swings the Stick | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

...surprise of the year: Georgie Auld off tenor sax. Georgie used to be to the sax what Buddy Rich is to drums. Now he's playing swell horn, modelling his style on 'Coleman Hawkins', and you couldn't ask for a better master.... Dillagene, Woody Herman's new vocalist, does a nice job on Five O'clock Whistle, (DECCA). She's one of the few really good girl singers around these days. Reverse is The Golden Wedding, full of jungle music and tom-toms. Okay if you like that sort of thing.... Somebody by the name of Walter Cross...

Author: By Charles Miller, | Title: SWING | 12/7/1940 | See Source »

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