Radio Mirror (Nov 1936-Apr 1937)

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Write r ,»5n. ..Don't miss thia opportunity. WHU Now— It a t REE! FIRESIDE INDUSTRIES, Dept. 34-B, Adrian, Mich. Osborne the drums, Frank Black the piano and Andre Kostelanetz the violin? Some of the boys who keep up their playing are Russ Morgan, Harry Reser, Benny Kreuger, Hal Kemp, Dick Stabile, Glen Gray, Jimmy Dorsey, Benny Goodman and Red Nichols, to name a few. * * * George Olsen, famous for his smile, who took over the Orville Knapp band, is transferring that smile to his music . . . George's wife, Ethel Shutta, has collected handsomely in insurance for those stolen jewels . . . Benny Goodman is the only man who can play the clarinet and smile at the same time . . . Wayne King is a stockholder in Lady Esther and is in the unique position of sitting on the board and hiring himself. . . . Ozzie Nelson says it's great to be a dad although he ran himself ragged between hospital and hotel for two weeks. Harriet is now on the Coast fulfilling her contract to make three pictures . . . Red Nichols made his first bid to fame with his Five Pennies, but it's a dollar ante now. Ozzie Nelson, who used to play professional football, announces his pieces on the stand by numbers. If you happen to be dancing by and hear him say, "3-1624" you'll know it's Ozzie's signal for a new tune. ... A cute young singer was engaged by a good looking maestro to sing with his band. It was her first experience and she fell for the leader hard. One evening, he started to introduce her by saying, "1 now bring you that beautiful little songstress, Miss — " but he had to lean over and ask her name; which completely wrecked her romance . . . Abe Lyman cleaned up on Roosevelt . . . The publishers are coming forth with their usual flock of Santa Claus songs . . . Since Warners went back on the air Warren and Dubin, their ace song writing team, have been hitting close to a sixteen hour daily schedule, writing "a thousand love songs." Al Dubin explains their success by saying they write music that photographs, meaning that each song fits into the plot and carries along the action in the picture . . . Mai Hallett now has a farm of a thousand chickens (with feathers) ... It's a show in itself to see the faces Gene Kruppa makes while drumming for Benny Goodman. He also chews gum in any rhythm . . . Incidentally, as predicted in this column, Benny Goodman is packing them in at the Pennsylvania . . . Mrs. Lou Gehrig, wife of the Yankee first baseman, is writing popular songs. Bunny Berrigan, Cosey Cole and Red McKenzie appear in that gigantic revue, "Red, White and Blue" . . . Harold Stern has opened his own Chez Stern Club in Brooklyn . . . Will Osborne made a football short for Paramount. * * * It's funny how some of our best instrumentalists on the air got started. While Harry Brewer was laid up in bed his dad got him a toy xylophone. Harry amused himself for hours and when he recovered, got a larger instrument. He's still at it and you hear his xylophone pyrotechnics on many programs ... As a joke a friend of May Singhi Breen's gave her a ukulele for Christmas. Spurning it as too simple to bother with, she tried to exchange it at the store for a bath robe. The exchange was refused so she took the thing home and started strumming it. Fascinated, she kept on and has been playing it ever since. Incidentally she has been on the air now consecutively for fourteen years. * * * Dick Ballou, whose orchestra provides nutty Ralph Dumke and Ed East with musical background on their morning gelatin program on CBS, was like all little boys — he wanted to be a policeman. But unlike most youngsters, he practiced it. He got his parents to give him a little policeman's uniform, and in it he paraded the street of Shamokin, Pa., his home town, directing traffic. He got so serious about it that his parents became alarmed and began to look around for something to distract his interest. Finally they hit upon music, and persuaded Dick to take piano lessons, on condition that he be allowed to wear his uniform while practicing. But gradually he grew more interested in the piano and less in being a cop — and that's how he became a musician. He grew up to form his own college band, tour for several years as singer with a road show, and finally enter radio through the influence of the late, beloved Roxy. But there's no telling what he might be today if he hadn't wanted to be a cop so much that he worried his parents when he was a boy. ORCHESTRAL ANATOMY For M. E. Mendel— (And for all Lombardo fans)— Here in a nutshell is the Lombardo orchestra. Carmen, saxophone and flute; Liebert, trumpet and drums; Victor, baritone saxophone and clarinet; Fred Kreitzer, piano; Francis Henry, guitar; Fred Higman, second saxophone; Larry Owen, third saxophone; George Gowans, drums; Jim Dillon, trombonist; Bern Davis, bass horn; Wayne Webb, trombone; Frank Vigneau, piano; and Dudley Fosdick, mellophone. For Mrs. Alice G. Mahoney — Your favorite vocalist, whom you only know by his first name, is Terry Shand, singer with Freddy Martin's orchestra. Terry has been with Freddy Martin for many years, and besides being the vocalist he is the band's first pianist, and a proficient arranger of comedy songs. Just recently he recovered from a serious automobile accident, and is now back with Freddy at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago. Terry's a Southern gentleman. And as for Freddy Martin, he plays the saxophone as well as leading his orchestra, is married, was born in Cleveland, and got his start with the Lombardos. Does that fill the big order you mentioned in your letter? For M. D. Bergen — Larry Taylor is the baritone soloist with Morton Gould's "Music for Today" band on MBS Sundays at 8:30. He just celebrated his twenty-first birthday, has blue eyes and blond hair, isn't married, and is mighty fond of playing tennis. For Clarence Bolton — No, Teddy Wilson, the colored pianist on Benny Goodman's trio, doesn't travel with the band; he just makes phonograph recordings with Benny. For Catharine Fleagle — George Olsen's old orchestra disbanded when he took over Orville Knapp's band; and George's lovely wife, Ethel Shutta, is confining her activities to staying home and taking care of the family, except for a guest appearance now and then. An interesting rumor concerning the personnel of the band is that Knapp in his will specified that no changes could be made in the band s solo 82