Word: goodman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Likes Beans. The Benny Goodman of the Spanish guitar is unquestionably Sabicas. Like most authentic popular musicians, 27-year-old Sabicas never had any formal training, never learned to read a note of music. Blind beggars on the streets of his native Pamplona, Spain, taught him flamenco...
...also unfortunate that the scheduled appearance of Paul Anthony's sextet was called off at the last moment. Anthony is a local boy who has assembled a sweet-swing group much in the pattern of the Goodman sextet and should make a name for himself if he only gets the necessary break...
...Theda Bara was a friendly Cincinnati girl named Theodosia Goodman, who became cinema's first femme fatale. Her catch line: "It is very hot in Africa" became a cliche almost as famous in its day as Mae West's "Come up and see me sometime...
...Goodman Baker thought these would be good topics for discussion, perhaps even for adoption as resolutions. But soon Fred Baker found himself doing nothing more than wearily explaining that his charter was not framed by Wendell Willkie. The delegates were skeptical; they were not all necessarily anti-Willkie but they did not want to be even casually labeled as Willkieites. Fred Baker tried to read his program at a formal dinner; he was stopped. He tried to present it in open meeting; he was balked. All he could do was submit it to the resolutions committee, of which...
...reason is not Lewis' music per se. His band has at times had first-class hot-jazz players (Muggsy Spanier, Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey, George Brunies*). But usually the musicians are purely a supporting cast to Lewis himself. He is a one-man synthesis of U.S. show business at its showiest. Under full steam, Ted Lewis embodies the Shakespearean ham, the minstrel strutter, the carnival drum major, the medicine barker, the vaudeville tearjerker, the circus buffoon, the ragtime sport-all among the most fondly regarded figures in U.S. life...