Modern Screen (Jan-Jun 1945)

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and that talkie song, "I'm In The Market For You." Louis sounds better than ever, and I've been listening to him since he worked here in New York with Fletcher Henderson's band back in '24, six years ago. I hear Duke Ellington's recording the song from his movie, "Three Little Words," and using Paul Whiteman's Three Rhythm Boys for the vocal— Al Rinker (that's Mildred Bailey's young brother) and Harry Barris (the fellow who just wrote a new song called "I Surrender Dear") and Bing Crosby. They ought to sound good with the Duke — they've sure done a swell job with Whiteman. (We're still getting requests for "When It's Springtime In The Rockies" — don't forget that one, Joe. And you know what I keep hearing on the air? "Beyond The Blue Horizon." And "Fine and Dandy." And another Jimmy McHugh one, "Exactly Like You.") This Rudy Vallee certainly is sitting on top of the world, huh? Had a night club named for him, made a talkie, got a castiron NBC contract, publishing a book about himself, women fainting all over the place before he even gets the megaphone to his lips. That reminds me, we ought to make up an arrangement on "Something To Remember You By." If Vallee does it, it's sure fire. Bert Lown's doing very nicely at the Biltmore, they say. And I hear young Ozzie Nelson's done a grand job out at the new Glen Island Casino in New Rochelle. Plays saxophone, guitar and violin — talented kid. But the big names are still mostly out on the Coast. Did you see the list of celebrities who've been swarming into the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles to hear Gus Arnheim's orchestra? Clara Bow and Rex Bell, Marian Nixon, Marie Dressier, Sally Eilers, just about everybody who's anybody, I guess. Say, you know this songwriter Billy Rose, the one who wrote "I've Got A Feeling I'm Falling" with Fats Waller and Andy Razaf? They say he's decided to become a producer and opened his own offices. Some fellers don't know when they're well off. He'll lose his shirt. I hear Razaf teamed up with Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake to do the new "Blackbirds" show. Talking about Sissle, did you hear what a big hit he was in Paris at the Ambassadors? Looks like all you have to do nowadays to make a hit with a band is go to Europe and come back so you can announce "Direct From Sensational European Tour!" Horace Heidt just came back from over there; now he's playing theatres all over the country and cleaning up. Hal Kemp was big in London and Paris, too. Had that youngster Bunny Berigan in his trumpet section. And they say the Ted Lewis band got $5,000 a week at the Kit Cat in London. Some of his boys made some records with Spike Hughes while they were in England. Spike is the local hot jazz hero and he got Jimmy Dorsey, who was making the trip with Lewis, to sit in on a record session with him. Funny how almost all the big bandleaders in London are Americans, even if they have all-British bands. Howard Jacobs, for instance, he's the big noise at Claridge's, they say he's getting as much as $500 a week for himself, net. And Roy Fox at Cafe de Paris, Ray Starita, Carroll Gibbons — all from over here, but formed bands over there. (Last set coming up, Joe — give 'em "Cheerful Little Earful" and "It Happened In Monterey." And don't forget the "Pagan Love Song," they always go for that!) After that little excursion into the past, here I am back in 1945 with some slightly more up to date gossip. The big talk of the day concerns Benny Goodman's new band. From what I heard at rehearsals and their first broadcasts via Fitch Bandwagon and Spotlight Bands, I'd say Benny has hit his stride very fast. Despite the difficulty of getting men at almost any price nowadays, he's done a fine job, roping in such people as Trummy Young on trombone and Jane Harvey, a promising singer who was a hit last season at Cafe Society Downtown. But the big kick of course is the Quintet (or Sextet, when he adds a guitar for records) — with Red Norvo on vibes, Teddy Wilson on piano and Slam Stewart, who used to be with Slim and Slam, bowing his bass and doing those weird vocal noises. Between them and drummer Morey Feld, it's the solidest small group Benny's had since the memorable 1941 outfit with Cootie Williams and Georgie Auld. Red Norvo tells me that working with Teddy is his idea of paradise, and an inspiration both to himself and Benny. Glad to note that Benny is continuing his policy of taking an occasional vocal himself, as he did with the band he had in '43. 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