Modern Screen (Jul-Dec 1945)

mindedly, Benny reached into his pocket and gave the driver a pack of Luckies. You think the driver was surprised? Not nearly so surprised as Benny. He swears he only smokes Old Golds! Another Goodman tale concerns the time Benny and his wife got into a taxi, deeply engrossed in conversation, and the cabbie sat around, patiently awaiting their pleasure. Finally, he turned around and caught Benny's eye. "Oh, yes, yes," said Benny briskly. "How much is that?" Johnny Mercer, whose newest is: CANDY (Capitol; Dinah Shore's on Victor), writes his own songs — if not the tunes always, at least the lyrics — sings 'em himself, owns a piece of Capitol Record company which waxes his numbers, and is generally a one-man music world. Johnny started singing on records as a joke. He and Jack Teagarden would tear into a piece way back when they were with Paul Whiteman. Eventually, people even began to like the guy! It's getting fashionable .for song writers to lend a tonsil to a tune. Take Hoagy Carmichael. For years, he plodded along as a peaceful song-smith, and suddenly he makes with the vocal in "To Have and Have Not" and everybody forgets Lauren Bacall. Ladies cry for him, honest. Coming back to Mercer, remember those swell discs he turned out with Bing Crosby? And corning back to Bing, there's: JUST A PRAYER AWAY (Decca; Kate Smith did the Columbia version.) Bing sings awful sweet on this. Brother Bob Crosby, Lieutenant with the U. S. Marines, dropped in at my radio program to say hello the other evening. He was back from nine months in the Pacific and in New York to organize a unit for the Fleet Marine Force. "We traveled 16,000 miles on one tour with a 15-piece band. After I was sent back here, the boys went on to Iwo Jima. We were at Peleliu on D plus 30, and we were close to Leyte. I had a lot of young, spirited kids with me and the music was good, but the audiences were even better — they warmed your heart." For blues there's nobody better than Satchmo and his Victor Album: LOUIS ARMSTRONG— These are reissues of 1932-33, including "Basin Street Blues," "St. Louis Blues," and Louis' theme, "Sleepy Time Down South." You can hear some smooth piano being played — by a kid who'd just hit Chicago from Texas, and got a break with Louis. He was barely out of his teens and he was known as Theodore Wilson. Yep, Teddy himself, most noticeable on "I Got the World on a String." When you think about pianists, though —even pianists excellent as Teddy — your thoughts just naturally gravitate to Art Tatum, the mightiest of them all. so how about lending an ear to Barney Bigard's: BLUES FOR ART'S SAKE (Black and White)— The title refers to Tatum, and this was a session I got together. Managed— a thing I'd always wanted to see done — the two Joe Thomases on one disc. 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