Word: moanin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Christopher Smith Reynolds, ten-year-old posthumous son of the late, mysteriously shot Tobacco Heir Zachary Smith Reynolds (Camels) and Torchsinger Libby Holman Reynolds Holmes (Moanin' Low), cost his mother 42? more a month for "support, education and recreation" this year than he did last. This year's monthly outlay, according to a report filed in Baltimore's Orphans' Court: $6,944.86. The expense money comes from the boy's estate, originally some...
...Palm Springs thought they saw someone bail out in a parachute. But what they saw was the transport's tail assembly. Then the airliner screamed crazily earthward, careened into a mountainside. The wreckage burned for five hours; the three crew members and nine passengers, including Songwriter Ralph Rainger (Moanin' Low, Love in Bloom), were dead...
Sharp-eared listeners to the CBS network this week sensed something out-of-the-ordinary. They were right. Good Morning, Blues, played by the Moanin' Blowers (bandleader unannounced), was a sneak opening-the first of a dozen 15-minute broadcast spots scattered through the week, featuring a new six-man band led by the screwiest bandster in the business: Raymond Scott (real name: Harry Warnow...
...will find the atmosphere, though in the Libby Holman records. It's just a guitar that accompanies the Moanin' Low Voice, and the music is very simple and, yes, sincerely done. It is the sort of thing that he who doesn't generally appreciate jazz will find easy and satisfying to listen to, and I suppose this album will make the blues fashionable among what's left of the carriage trade that used to love Libby...
...Moanin' Low (Lena Home; Victor; 8 sides). Old favorites, such as Stormy Weather, The Man I Love, sung sensationally by the soulful Negro torchsinger, lately of Manhattan's Café Society, now in Hollywood...