Word: tuning
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...international situation. The preoccupation of songwriters with U. S. patriotism put three flag-waving songs on Variety's best-selling list.* The assault on England has boosted A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square to No. 3 on the list. But the fall of France has inspired the best tune: The Last Time I Saw Paris, by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II. Not yet a bestseller, this song was well on its way last week. Kate Smith had had exclusive radio rights to it for six weeks. There were half a dozen records of it, of which silky-voiced...
...cast rises above its amateur limitations in its opening number, "Three Little Section Men," which features Lee A. Dimond '41, William D. Schall '41, and Stern as three fugitives from sex. To another catchy tune, Edwin G. Eklund '42, Thomas Eliot '41 and Julian Sobin '41, the "DeWolfe Street Debutantes" beg to be passed...
...just can't learn in an instruction book. In other words, you've just got to have it in you. Well, Buddy Rich and a lot of drummers like him haven't got it, so they try to make up for it by slamming their way through every tune they play...
NEWS AND NEW RELEASES: Four sides by Benny Goodman have finally come out on COLUMBIA, and they're everything you could ask for. First coupling is by the band: Nobody, and Henderson Stomp. Nobody is a swell pop tune sung by Helen Forest, who seems to be more and more influenced by Billie Holiday. The arrangement is very good; ideal for dancing. Henderson is typical orchestration by the arranger for whom the tune was named. Very unpretentious stuff, but the kind that really kicks. Scoring of brass against reed passages reminiscent of the famous chase chorus on Stealin' Apples. Benny...
Dunster won its match over the Bell-boys by a score of 3 to 2, while Kirkland's Deacons took the measure of the Bunnies to the tune of 4 to 1. In the other match, Adams defeated Eliot...