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...minutes, it was all over. The iron building was not destroyed, but Walter Barnes, his vocalist, six of his ten bandsmen died in the hall. Only a few burned to death; most were smothered or crushed. When the blaze had burned itself out, the dead were piled three deep...
Crooned by throaty-voiced Marion Mann, Bob Crosby's vocalist at Manhattan's Hotel New Yorker, these words last week first puzzled, then annoyed listeners, who failed to catch the meaning of the French. When they asked for more light, Bandleader Crosby himself was stumped...
Would Ja Mind? (Orrin Tucker: Columbia). Fiery-sided purring by Vocalist Bonnie Baker, who mewed Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh! into its second incarmenation (TIME...
Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh!, gave it to his vocalist, little Bonnie Baker, to sing. Five months ago, with Band Leader Tucker's band, Vocalist Baker recorded it. So melting and cajoling were diminutive Bonnie's "Oh !s" (Chicago jitterbugs quickly changed the text to "Oh Bonnie, Oh!") that her record was soon jerking juke-box nickels faster than the fading Beer Barrel Polka (TIME, Sept. 11). Last week, with 350,000 sheet-music copies and some 350,000 records sold to date, the revived Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh! was nudging South of the Border for first place...
Things are certainly swingteresting this month in old Beantown. Bunny Berigan opens Monday at the Marionette Room of the Hotel Brunswick with his full band and Kay Doyle as vocalist, and Duke Ellington is at the Southland. Berigan's trumpet playing is always worth hearing, and this band is supposed to be pretty good...