Word: waller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doing to win the war. Listen has told the stories of Iowa's Peggy Conrardy, the first U.S.O. hostess in Alaska; of Iowa's Carl Anderson, "who is doing the same thing he's done [raise hogs], just a lot more of it"; of Russell J. Waller, Iowa newspaper editor who enlisted because "I thought you couldn't write editorials for two years, as I did, telling people this was our fight, and then not get in yourself when the first gun was fired...
...heard only a few minutes of the Ken music. They had many more names than the Buckminster: Red Allen and his men, Al Morgan, Sam Donahue, and three of Fats Waller's band. But that sardine can atmosphere you find there, with people at, on, and under every table trying to get a look at the performers, is not conducive to enjoying the music at all. Still, if you were comfortable enough to listen, the output was naturally quite savory...
...band plays of an evening at the same Ken, where his man Don Stovall plays every pleasing alto. Tuesday time-honored Sidney Bechet will bring another colored group there as a relief band, and if that means no more floor show so much the better. There is Fats Waller at the Tictoc as well, not to forget Sabby Lewis at the hardy perennial Savoy...
...Waller on the Ivories (Thomas "Fats" Waller; Victor; 8 sides). First album anthology of Waller's piano recordings, from Handful of Keys (1929) to Hoagy Carmichael's Rockin' Chair (1941). No clowning, no singing, not quite the carefree honky-tonk mood, but high-powered, sure-fingered work...
Richard B. Adler '43, Waller R. Arnold '44, Elisha Atkins '42, George A. Ball '42, Bruce Barton, Jr. '43, William H. Batchelor '42, Walter J. Beckhard '42, Nicholas B. D. Biddle '44, Charles M. Bliss '43, Eugene L. Bondy '42, Leon H. Brachman...