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Down Beat's issue is packed with dozens of tributes from every quarter of the music compass, from Composer Deems Taylor and Songwriter Cole Porter to Bopster Billy Eckstine and Weeper Johnnie Ray. Learned articles trace his musical history and speculate on his future...
...Mossadeq, who frequently bursts into tears or faints, is nevertheless powerful enough to keep the Middle East in turmoil. But as he arrived in the U.S. last week, to continue the battle against Britain before the U.N., Manhattan's jeering, tabloid Daily News greeted him in characteristic style: WEEPER MOSSY HERE TODAY FOR U.N. SHOW...
Where are the beards of yesteryear-the "Spade," the "Tile," the "Uncle Sam," the "Van Dyke," the "Piccadilly Weeper," the "Cathedral?" Where is the like of Huguenot Admiral de Coligny's beard, which served as a pincushion for the admiral's toothpicks? Where is the beaver of iyth Century Bishop Camus of Bellai-a growth so formidable that he used to split it up, as an aid to memory, into the necessary sections and subsections of his sermons? And where is the beard of Austrian Burgomaster Hans Steininger-the one in which he caught his toe, tripped...
...boats Dixie Bell and Sidney. The pay was the unheard of (for Satchmo) sum of $55 a week. Says he: "I had so much money I just plain didn't know what to do with it." They played such old Storyville favorites as Sugar Foot Stomp, Willie the Weeper and Coal Cart Blues, and Louis held the gay crowds spellbound when he sang the relatively new Basin Street Blues...
...first, Susanna and the Elders, was a trifle doughy. In Willie the Weeper, a raucous tale about a reefer smoker, the action takes place "in Willie's untidy mind." In this dim and messy setting, there are a few too many busy dancers and singers; but Moross' blue and boogie backgrounds and a goofy song called I've Got Me make up for the flaws. Hit of the show was The Eccentricities of Davey Crockett, which began stickily with Davey's "miraculous birth," but got better every minute...