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...Fats" (Fats Waller; Victor, 2 LPs). A welter of Wallerana. including the insolent ("I feel so effervescent today") voice, the bouncy piano that somehow sounds ribald, his second-rate sidemen and some previously unreleased material...
FLEMING R. WALLER...
Died. Fred Waller, 68, veteran Hollywood special-effects man, who after 13 years perfected Cinerama in 1951, first showed it to the public in Manhattan 20 months ago (total box-office receipts to date: $10 million); of Hodgkin's disease; in Huntington...
...Fats Waller First Editions (Joe Sullivan, piano; Epic LP). Eight unpublished Waller compositions, from blue moods to impudent bounces, played by one of Chicago's alltime greats, Joe Sullivan. No Waller fan will complain if most of the longs sound like his familiar Honeysuckle Rose or Ain't Misbehavin...
Since then, a distinguished company of piano players, from Paderewski and Rachmaninoff to Fats Waller and Jimmy Durante, have hailed their decision. In Carnegie Hall this week, an S.R.O. crowd met to hail some more. On stage stood ten Steinway concert grands, and to their keyboards came squads of concert pianists (among them: Alexander Brailowsky, Robert Casadesus) to crash out in triumphant unison The Star-Spangled Banner, Chopin's Polonaise in A Major, and The Stars and Stripes Forever. It was the most emphatic way anybody could think of to celebrate the zooth anniversary of the U.S. House...