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Otherwise, Rhythm on the River (not to be confused with Rhythm on the Range) is like the best Bing Crosby musicals which preceded it. With the quiet simplicity of a nursery rhyme it unrolls the fable of a lazy composer (Crosby) who collaborates with a pretty, ambitious lyricist (Mary Martin) in knocking out the popular tunes which make Basil Rathbone a Manhattan social superba. When Crosby and Martin set out to write under their own names they are accused of stealing the Rathbone style, tramp the edges off their heels in vain visits to song publishers. With this tissue-thin...
...fans, Oliver was a nobody. Son of a Delaware coal miner, he had quietly come up from the caddy ranks to a job as golf pro at an obscure country club in Hornell, N.Y. Last winter, in his second trek over the Grapefruit Circuit, he won two tournaments: the Bing Crosby Open and the Phoenix Open. Except to his colleagues who toured the southern resorts and to spectators who happened to see his par-busting play, Ed Oliver was just another pro-until he was DISQUALIFIED...
...Tired of Mountain Women by Wiley Walker and Gene Sullivan; many & many another. On these lists, collectors of Americana might find some rewarding items; jazz addicts would be overpowered by the prevailing corny fla vor. But Decca and Columbia would no more scrap their hillbilly catalogues than they would Bing Crosby and Benny Good man. Scout Kapp used to spend a month on a recording trip. Now, with ten trunks full of recording equipment, he camps in a city hotel for ten days, and the musicians come from miles away to play for him. Bandsmen, who must join the musicians...
...Bill of Rights not in some way supervised or directed is the art of barbershop singing. . . ." Local chapters of the S. P. E. B. S. Q. S. A. mushroomed all over the country, now number some 200. Among the 2,000 members: Major Bowes, Groucho Marx, Jim Farley, Bing Crosby, five Southwestern Governors...
...cheerful On Behalf of the Visiting Firemen, sung by Author Johnnie Mercer, who never quite explains the nature of his raucous reunion, and Bing Crosby, who continually calls for a gypsy moth...