Word: obadiah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marvin and Obadiah Leonard were a couple of Texas farm boys when they came to Fort Worth in 1918, bought a general store and settled down. They knew how to make customers feel at home. Said Marvin: "If you see a man who wants to spit, walk in front of him and spit, so he'll see that it's the thing to do." Said Obadiah: "The customer pays our bills. We're going to be good...
Many a concert classic has been swung higher than Obadiah, but last week a Tchaikovsky theme was swung five different ways at once. The Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto in B Flat Minor, played straight, had its popular start in the movies last spring; Mary Astor's make-believe pounding of it in The Great Lie got it widely known as "the Mary Astor Concerto." Freddie Martin recorded it, but neglected to give it lyrics which could be copyrighted. So by last week there were four competing versions...