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...Miss Dinah Shore, sultry-voiced singer of "Yes, My Darling Daughter" fame, will highlight the vocal side of the Jubilee's musical entertainment this Friday evening, it was announced yesterday by Andrew Welch '44, chairman of the Yardlings' spring prom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '44 TO HEAR DINAH SHORE | 5/21/1941 | See Source »

...Dinah, who is now appearing on the Boston stage, gained her fame from two recordings, "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" and "Yes, My Darling Daughter." Hailed as one of the younger up-and-coming singers, and has recently been doing free lance singing in New York theatres and night clubs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '44 TO HEAR DINAH SHORE | 5/21/1941 | See Source »

Besides rendering her several numbers Dinah will assist two, as yet undisclosed connoisseurs of feminine beauty, to pick the "Freshman Ideal Girl" who will reign as queen over the dance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '44 TO HEAR DINAH SHORE | 5/21/1941 | See Source »

...near future will see a Hal Kemp Memorial Album, featuring eight of his best tunes reissued by COLUMBIA. Hal Kemp never pretended to play hot music, but he was an excellent showman and had one of the finest dance orchestras in the country. The Album will definitely be welcome. . . . Dinah Shore's best record to date is Memphis Blues, a BLUEBIRD Vocadance. If you've missed hearing her, you should listen to this record, and you might notice the similarity to Mildred Bailey--unfortunately, however, lacking in that swell undisciplined quality that only Mildred can work into a tune...

Author: By Charles Miller, | Title: SWING | 1/17/1941 | See Source »

...wood winds in his own hot arrangements. Guests have included Pianists "Jelly Roll" Morton, Alec Templeton and Joe Sullivan, Blues Composer W. C. Handy, Violinist Kurt Polnarioff of the Pittsburgh Symphony (with his hair down), Conductor Frank Black (with a hot harpsichord). Official singer is pretty, sultry-voiced Dinah Shore, 23, who was born Fanny Rose Shore in Winchester, Tenn., changed her name because of puns. When old Composer Handy heard Dinah Shore send out his Memphis Blues, he wept, said: "It was never really sung before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Chamber-Music Society | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

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