Word: washboards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stage were six nimble young men in dinner jackets, and strewed around them were more than a hundred percussion instruments-including a horse's jawbone, six water-buffalo bells, eight auto brake drums, a corrugated washboard and a set of bongo drums. When the conductor raised his baton, the young men moved on an assortment of weapons and started to flail away. The effect was like an explosion in a boiler factory. The occasion: an all-percussion concert at New York's Manhattan School of Music, under the direction of Veteran Percussionist Paul Price...
...blonde, blue-eyed Actress Virginia Payne has never missed a performance, stands loyally by the washboard weepers. "Radio is a companion and these characters are friends to millions of lonely people," she says in a soft, nasal voice. "It is not supposed to be a pretentious art form. It is not Aristotelian with beginnings, middles and endings, but a series of situations and characters that must extend and develop over great periods of time. Our critics are people who do not stay with us." Although key telegrams are still delivered on the Friday program and opened on Monday, Actress Payne...
Pseudonyms ranged from "Washboard Sam" to "Elmirsemirfermir Moustapha pasha" to the more obscure...
...Navy boxing his life. He taught all his midshipmen the same jabbing, skipaway style that saved Gene Tunney after Jack Dempsey flattened him for the famed long count in 1927. And he was a bug on conditioning. All Webb teams did road work before reveille; all Webb boxers developed washboard bellies. They needed them. Coach Webb had a quaint habit of slamming his fist into any abdomen within range, by way of greeting...
...great musician, but I can't go along with him. Instead of a real interest in the lyrics or the melody, all Miller cared about was gimmicks. One day he said to me: 'Frank, we're going to make a record with a washboard.' I looked at him and said: 'Mitch, you're kidding.' But he wasn't. I refused to do it. I guess I did a lot of refusing between...