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Sing Something Simple. The tune of Lili Marleen has the simplicity, tinged with poignancy, which has characterized many of the most enduring popular songs (Madelon, The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, etc.). It begins by impressing its listeners as musical beer and sauerkraut, ends by becoming a habit-forming musical drug. With an ump-pah accompaniment, it is a march. Changed to ump-da-dump-dump, it becomes a tango. In either case, the strains are of a kind which easily attach themselves to romantic memories and the pathos of separation...
...Brunswick reissues mentioned a few weeks ago have just come in. In both cases, Red Nichols and Pine Top Smith, the music is as fine as the surfaces are terrible. In addition, the seventy-five cents price is too much, even for second masters. The higher tariff would be justified by good surfaces, but in the present instance, it's pure inflation...
Brunswick announces as forthcoming a Red Nichols album, featuring the early work of Jack Teagarden, Benny Goodman, Joe Sullivan, Babe Rusin and others. Also a Pine-Top Smith album, with four sides by the supposed originator of b--g--e--w--g--c, one of which has not been reissued before. It is a pity that the only really issued before. It is a pity that the only really other records besides jazz, has the poorest surfaces. But they do make money without playing cheap tricks on record collectors
Could it was that Midshipmen have begun investing in steady dates? Why else the lack of enthusiasm for the Pine Manor shindig tomorrow night? It's worth it just for the ride in one o' them there gas buggies, almost. Unleas you can show us someone like Oakesey's Barbara B. or Slater's Gloria N., we say c'mon along and take a chance on your good looks...
...another Giard Triumph on the way. This time it's an invite from the exclusive Pine Manor Girls' School in Wellesley. The date's Saturday, April 10, private bus service deerect. Eighty Midshinmen bachelors to be invited. this has no connection whatsoever with the letter Artise Mayer is working on in answer to Wellesley's "We love brass buttons" article in last week's Service News. We'll say no more, but we hope it works...