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Wilkes-Barre students won a New York trip to see Bob Poole's show in commemoration of the town's Bob Poole Day. Proceedings were aired by WBAX.
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No, this isn't Bing bnt his next door Wednesday night CBS neighbor, George "Sngar Throat" Burns. Gracie is looking for a singing spot for hubby.
Believe it or not, the trend in popular music seems to be toward the revival of Dixieland bands. Jimmy Dorsey has come back to public favor in a big way with such a band. Small units of five and six men playing this type of ragtime are becoming more and more popular. And rumor has it that even Claude Thornhill is seriously thinking of starting a Dixieland group.
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A recent issue of the RCA Victor Picture Record Review pictured the sixteen top vocal artists in the country and listed their home towns. As the Record Review pointed out, the state of Virginia may be the home of presidents, but New York is the home of singers. Four of the top sixteen were born in New York. Here's the listing: Perry Como, Canonsburg, Pa.; Fran Warren, New York, N. Y.; Dick Haymes, New York, N. Y.; Dinah Shore, Winchester, Tenn.; Peggy Lee, Jamestown, N. D.; Vic Damone, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Mindy Carson, New York, N. Y.; Bing Crosby, Tacoma, Wash.; Frank Sinatra, Hoboken, N. J.; Lisa Kirk, Roscoe, Pa.; Billy Eckstine, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Ella Fitzgerald, Newport News, Va.; Margaret Whiting, Detroit, Mich.; Frankie Laine, Chicago, 111.; Doris Day, Dayton, O.; and Bill Lawrence, East St. Louis, 111.
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It may sound just a little bit incongruous, but conducting the Boston Pops Orchestra and chasing fire engines makes plenty of sense to Arthur Fiedler, who does both with equal vitality. Conductor Fiedler is honorary fire chief of Boston, Massachusetts and has his car equipped with special license plates and a two-way radio. He even owns a Dalmatian — usually the symbol of fire engines and clanging bells.
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Wanna be a top-notch song writer? There's lots of good advice contained in a book published by Simon and Schuster. Written by Oscar Hammerstein, the tome is called Lyrics. And who could give better advice than the word-writing half of Rodgers and Hammerstein? (Continued on page 24)