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There were some youngish soldiers & sailors who were there to hear Dinah Shore, on the same program, and who thought the Rhythm Boys leaned slightly toward the corn. But to many who had grown up with the syncopated ditty, Mississippi Mud seemed a solid, perdurable part of U.S. musical history...
...Manhattan offices, it culls and reprints a selection of popular tunes. Within a few weeks every U.S. Army company from North Africa to Guadalcanal is supplied with a new batch of sheet music. A committee of top-flight U.S. entertainers (Fred Waring, Rudy Vallee, Bing Crosby, Kate Smith, Dinah Shore, Kay Kyser, Paul Whiteman, etc.) gladly act as song judges...
Ella Fitzgerald is also promised. While her singing of late is-not on the same level as in the old Chick Webb days, Ella is still, for my money, worth a baker's dozen of Dinah Shores and Helen O'Connells...
...Bessic Smith? She was a big colored woman, with a voice like a mellow foghorn, a range of two notes, and a heart as big as humanity. Bessie is, indeed, the epitome of all that is good in jazz. To the uninitiated, she couldn't possibly stack up alongside Dinah. Certainly Dinah is far easier to listen to. But when you take the time to listen to Bessic, you soon find out Dinah's is the one who can't do the stacking...
...also find that where Dinah is subtle and suggestive about sex, Bessic is blatant and forth-right. Only Bessic rises above mere worlds to give full expression to the hopes and woes of her environment. You can stand the infamous "Empty Bed Biues" because Bessic's vitality and spirit make the song much more than a piece of filth. You can't stand Dinah's "You Made Me Love You." because her shallowness can't even cope with the mild suggestiveness of the lyrics...