Word: bluebird
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Filling. Since those days, except for one brief (1939-40) episode when he had his own Ragtime Band and made some famous collector's items for the Bluebird label, Muggsy has been passing most of his working time as an unspectacular, if solid, fixture in Chicago and Manhattan jazz joints. Now, at 44, and playing as well as ever, he had suddenly become one of the rages of the West Coast. With his new handpicked, six-piece combo, Muggsy filled San Francisco's Hangover Club last month, is doing equally well at Tiffany...
...Danube (conducted by Leopold Stokowski); La Donna è Mobile, from Verdi's Rigoletto (sung by Caruso); Carry Me Back to Old Virginny (sung by Marian Anderson); Franz Liszt's Liebestraum (performed by the First Piano Quartet); Victor Herbert's Italian Street Song (sung by Jeanette MacDonald); Bluebird of Happiness (sung by Jan Peerce); Jalousie (performed by the Boston Pops Orchestra); Make Believe, from Show Boat (sung by Allan Jones...
...resort on the Catskill borsch circuit and signed him to tour the country with his own show. But each time, the big chance seemed to fizzle out, and Fisher went back to dates in small clubs and theaters, cutting an occasional record for RCA Victor's second-string Bluebird label...
Just south of Hartford, McKee was forced to stop again. This time a bluebird had peprehed on the back seat...
...Glenn Miller, who was reported missing in a flight over the English Channel during the war. Then he got a chance to try a few more in the old "danceable" mood. Recording with a house band of studio musicians, he turned out four sides for Victor's revived Bluebird (49?) label which sold so fast that some dealers hiked the price to 79?. Flanagan's next recording sold just as well. Before he knew it, 31-year-old Ralph Flanagan was the first bandleader to become a rage on records without ever showing his face to his public...