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...tuned in on a concert by the no doubt world-renowned Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street-whose members have consecrated their lives to the preservation of the music of the Three Bs-Barrelhouse, Boogie-woogie and the Blues. Present with us on this solemn occasion: Mademoiselle Dinah Diva Shore, who starts fires by rubbing two notes together; Maestro Paul Laval and his ten termite-proof wood winds; Dr. Gino Hamilton, as our chairman and intermission commentator; and Dr. Henry Levine, with his Dixieland Little Symphony of eight men and no-Period. As the Society's special guest...
...Negro jamboree with an all-Negro studio audience (Wednesdays 8 to 8:30 p.m. E.S.T.). Entrepreneur is colored Actor Richard Huey (All God's Chillun Got Wings, In Abraham's Bosom, Porgy), a Harlem big shot who runs a barbecue near Lenox Avenue called Aunt Dinah's Kitchen, and operates on the side a theatrical booking office for Negro talent. As Bossman Huey explained the setup: "Over on the right here we got the sheep. . . . They sing hymns, and they preach sermons and they is taken up with the spiritual side of life. Then over...
...Thought About You (Bluebird). Johnny Mercer's railroad ballad-probably the first from inside a Pullman-sung as low down as a tie-plate by Newcomer Dinah Shore...
...speakeasy--swing-easies"--behind sound proof doors? "Joe sent me"--furtive men carrying hot choruses around in black satchels--"Yeah, the straight stuff's here--Norvo, Basie, they're all beatin' it out downstairs"--black trucks being hijacked for rare records--raids on dives where Louis Armstrong is tearing "Dinah" to shreds? We'll probably all end up playing Mickey Mouse piano with Shep Fields...
Another of James Prince's notions was that the way to find your spiritual counterpart was to breathe deeply. To public opinion, that sounded like Free Love. The stories of how Dinah went every day to the laboratory to nurse the Machine made things worse. One day a mob arrived at the Temple, burned a few buildings, destroyed the Machine and sent James Prince packing. But Isaiah got Dinah and it looked as if the Temple would carry...