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Tailored by Tunesmith Irving Berlin for the suave, sleepy voice of Cinemactor Bing Crosby, this song (from Paramount's Holiday Inn) originally expressed the longing for sleet and ice of an Easterner marooned among the palm trees of Hollywood. But with thousands of U.S. servicemen facing snowless Christmases from North Africa to Guadalcanal, White Christmas has unexpectedly become the first big sentimental song hit of World...
Another Irving Berlin hit (also from Paramount's Holiday Inn) last week made Negro editors reach for their editorial shotguns. Offending song was Abraham, which begins with the couplet: When black folks lived in slavery Who was it set the darky free...
Smacking thoroughly of Irving Berlin from its thirteen songs to its superficial plot, "Holiday Inn" is the sure-fire musical it has to be. Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby supply able song-and-dance accompaniment,a t the same time filling the order for time-worn romantic conflict. Round one goes to Astaire when the tranquil night club trio of Crosby, Astaire, and Virginia Dale splits up, Crosby retiring to a farm, while his hoofer pal wins the gal and goes on hoofing...
...breaking swarm of new Berlin songs that would make any producer happy. "White Christmas," "Abraham," and "Be Careful, It's My Heart" nicely set the stage for a good performance by Crosby, while Astaire matches his best routines with an inspirational fire-cracker dance. With this to offer, "Holiday Inn" takes current honors for ninety minutes of good showmanship...
Gems of Jazz, Volume 5 (Decca; 10 sides). Latest addition to Decca's excellent historical anthology. Selected tidbits of the best small-scale Chicago and New Orleans style playing by such immortals as Jimmie Noone, Zutty Singleton, Eddie Condon, Jimmy McPartland. Notable items: Liberty Inn Drag and Get Happy, by the orchestra of famed Pianist Art Hodes, who has not made a recording since...