Radio varieties (Sept 1940-June 1941)

Patter Off the Platter Decca's platter of Jimmy Dorsey's recording of "Yours" (3658) with Bob Eberly and Helen O'Connell sharing the vocal honors, is a standout. The flip-over is "When the Sun Comes Out" vocals by Helen O'Connell. Decca's new Album No. A-200 GEMS OF JAZZ include six records that represent the hottest jazz numbers in a decade. Bud Freeman and his Windy City Five, Gene Krupa, Mildred Bailey, Mead "Lux" Lewis, and Joe Marsalla all contribute to make Decca's album "Gems of Jazz" one of the most outstanding albums in Jazz. Again Decca does it. "A Night In Rio" is their latest to crash the popular album field. Three 10" records sung by the colorful Carmen Miranda in her native tongue. This album No. A-210 is a must for the thousands of "Miranda" fans. Two more Decca's latest releases are the popular "Amapola" played by Nano Rodrigo (3172) and Ruby Newman's "Perfidia" (2846). Fcr two terrific Congas taken from popular songs of the 1920's are Poncho's recording of Decca's (3620) Tiger Rag and Hindustan. Add boogie-woogie to a bugle call and you've got something that only Jimmy Yancey would think of. He demonstrates in his "Yancey's Bule Call" which like the reverse, "35th and Dearborn," is an endless series of boogiewoogie variations on a theme. Yancey is the man who is credited with starting the walking left hand style which is now all the rage. (Victor 27238) Abe Lyman backs one of the outstanding ballad contenders of the day "How Did He Look" with o 1941 version of the buck private's lament, "You're In The Army Now." The latter is furnished with eight choruses of brand new lyrics, brass band effects and drum and bugle introduction. Look for it in the coin machines. (Bluebird B10971) Bunny Berigon bocks "Peg O' My Heart" with "Night Song" for a double of imusuol melodic oppeol. "Night Song" is the work of Juon Tizol, Duke Ellington's Page 4 famous valve trombonist, and the well-known arranger Jimmy Mundy, and includes some out of trumpet-range stuff which Bunny plays beoutifully. (Victor 27258) Huddie Leodbetter, Lead Belly to his intimates and pioblic alike, hos perhaps the largest and best repertoires of Southern prison and penitentiary songs in existence. He records them for posterity in "The Midnight Special and Other Prison Songs", singing these bitter and hounting refrains with the Golden Gate Quartet. In addition to "The Midnight Special", the numbers ore "Ham an' Eggs", "Grey Goose", "Stewboll", "Pick A Bole of Cotton", and "Alabama Bound", an unforgettable phase of Americano. Alan Lomox, one of the foremost outhorities on folk music, edits the accompanying booklet. (Victor Album P-50) Continuing its exploration of the unfamiliar and unusual in music, the Victor Block Lobel Classics list presents "Plymouth Ho! " a "nautical overture" by John Ansell. The rollicking performance of the Light Symphony Orchestra is lander the direction of Mr. Ansell himself. (Victor 27252) Popy's "Ballet Suite", played by the Grand Concert Orchestra is goy and dancing music with which not one in o hundred is familiar. It is however the kind of music that people whistle on o sunny day, brilliantly ployed by the Grand Concert Orchestra. (Victor 27253) You may coll "The Lilac Domino" either light opero or musicol comedy but it is still England's favorite collection of infectious melodious tunes. The London Pollodium Orchestro, conducted by Jock Frere, offers selections including the Introduction, "All Line Up In A Queue", "Where Love Is Waiting", "Let The Music Ploy", "Whot Is Done You Never Con Undo", the Finale of Act I, "For Your Love I'm Waiting", "Cctrnival Night", and "Lilac Domino". (Victor 36382) "Lady in the Dork" which is currently causing all the New York critics to scramble for more complimentory adjectives, owes mony of its rave notices to the Iro Gershwin Kurt Weill score. Mitchell Ayres shows us why, romanticizing the sweet tune, "This is New", and funnyboning the clever "Jenny" for o preview (Continued on next page) RADIO VARIETIES No. 4, VOLUME 3 APRIL, 194L CONTENTS The Red Headed Bluebird Guest Column By John J. Anthony From the Old Hayloft The Maple City Four Tugboat Gill and Demling Patter Off the Platter Studio Notes KS TP Sunset Valley Barn Dance Bess Johnson Peggy Knudsen F. L. ROSENTHAL, Publishei WILTON ROSENTHAL, Editor Published at 1056 West Van Buxen Street, Chicago, lUinois. F. L. Rosenthal, Publisher. New York Office: 485 Madison Avenue, Hollywood Office: 3532 Sunset Boulevard. Published Monthly. Single Copies, ten cents. Subscription rate $1.00 per year in the United States and Possessions, $1.50 in Canada. 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